Rethinking media coverage : vertical mediation and the war on terror

Summary: In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, Parks demonstrates how "coverage" makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it.

Record details

ISBN: 0415999820
ISBN: 0415999812
ISBN: 1135837384
ISBN: 9781135837389
ISBN: 1135837376
ISBN: 9781135837372
ISBN: 1135837430
ISBN: 9781135837433
ISBN: 1135837406
ISBN: 9781135837402
ISBN: 9780415999823
ISBN: 9780415999816
ISBN: 1135837422
ISBN: 9781135837426
ISBN: 0203879643
ISBN: 9780203879641
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Reading Satellite Images Like a State; The Microphysics of Geospatial Images; From Shutter Control to Google Earth; Mediascaping; Resource Speculation; Monitoring Reconstruction; Predictive Analytics; 4 Targeting: Mediating US Drone Wars; War Theater One: Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan; Drone Attack Photos; Aerial Assault Videos; Drone Protest Media; War Theater Two: The Horn of Africa Region; Views of Drone Infrastructure; Infrared Imagery; Drone Crash Scenes; Epilogue; Index
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.