Parks Coverage

Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-135-83742-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

In the post-9/11 era, media and security have become increasingly intertwined as techniques of filtering, sorting, surveillance and keywording become essential elements of national defense. In this book, Lisa Parks explores the complex relations between media and security, using the term "coverage" to develop a conceptual framework for understanding their interplay. At the heart of Parks's argument is an examination of the seemingly benign media technologies—such as Powerpoint, YouTube, and Google Earth—that have been used to extend the security regime into the spaces of everyday life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parks, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Airing: US Television's Vertical Turns

Chapter 2 - Searching: Screening Practices as US Airport Security Checkpoints

Chapter 3 - Monitoring: Geospatial Imagery and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Chapter 4 - Targeting: Mediating US Drone Wars

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Parks is Professor and Chair of the Film and Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke University Press, 2005) and co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU Press, 2003) and Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Duke UP, 2007). Parks sits on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Film Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, Mediascape, and e-media, and is director of the Global Cultures in Transition research initiative for the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB.