Geographies of informal media

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Title: Geographies of informal media
Author(s): Lobato, Ramon
Abstract: How are global media circuits spatially organised? How are the spatial imaginaries of audiences shaped by differential contact with distribution networks? This paper argues that effective answers to these questions require us to place informal media economies at the centre rather than the margins of our analytical frame. Taking seriously the extra-legal and pirate infrastructures which are off the map of state regulation and oversight, yet which distribute content to billions of people worldwide on a daily basis, generates a new framework for media geography and an alternative way of theorising global media.
Publication type: Seminar, speech or other presentation
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
Source: Paper presented as part of the 2010 Institute for Social Research (ISR) Lunchtime Seminar Series, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 14 July 2010
Publication year: 2010
Keyword(s): Distribution networks; Global media; Pirate media
Publisher: Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology
Publisher URL: http://www.sisr.net/events/10isrseminars.htm
Publisher URL: https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/swin.edu.au.2035556451.02035556453.4344945157?i=1390036720