Lisa Parks
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Down to Earth
Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures
Edited by Lisa Parks and James Schwoch
Rutgers University Press
Though satellites are now used by a wide array of entertainment, communications, and information technologies, from radio stations to GPS devices, the business of making, launching, and maintaining satellites is still shrouded in mystery. Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, scientific innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of this fascinating industry.
- Copyright year: 2012
Rethinking Global Security
Media, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror"
Edited by Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro; By Wendy Kozol, Marcus Bullock, James Castonguay, Mary Layoun, Rebecca Decola, Patricia Mellencamp, Tony Grajeda, Mike Allen, Robert Ricigliano, Doug Davis, and Lisa Parks
Rutgers University Press
In Rethinking Global Security , Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful-of images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities such as Howard Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other television programming play as an interpretative frame for current events.
- Copyright year: 2006
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