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Introduction Section One: Disciplinary Dilemmas: Canons and Orthodoxies 1. So-called Cultural Studies: Dead Ends and Reinvented Wheels 2. Cultural Studies and Media Studies: Contexts, Boundaries and Politics ? interview by Johannes von Moltke Section Two: Methodological Matters: Interdisciplinary Approaches 3. Methodological Problems and Research Practices: Opening up the Black Box ? interview by Claudio Flores 4. Visions of the Real: The Ethnographic Arts Section Three: The Geography of Modernity and the Orientation of the Future 5. EurAm, Modernity, Reason and Alterity: After the West? 6. Beyond Global Abstraction: Regional Theory and the Spatialisation of History Section Four: Domesticity, Mediation and the Technologies of ?Newness? 7. Public Issues and Intimate Histories: Mediation, Domestication and Dis-Location 8. Rhetorics of the Technological Sublime: the Paradoxes of Technical Rationality Section Five: Techno-Anthropology: Icons, Totems and Fetishes 9. Television: not so much a Visual Medium, more a Visible Object 10. Magical Technologies: the New, the Shiny and the Symbolic Coda: 11. Marvels and Wonders: Modernity, Tradition and Technology
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and technology.
Mass media -- Technological innovations.