Mediascapes

Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • G. Ritzer
Book title The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of globalization
ISBN
  • 9780470670590
Series Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedias in social science
Publisher Chichester [etc.]: Wiley-Blackwell
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract The term "mediascape" was coined by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai in his widely cited and anthologized article, "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy" (1990; 1996). Mediascape denotes both "the distribution of the electronic capabilities to produce and disseminate information" and "the images of the world created by these media." The spatial "scape" metaphor highlights the fluid and fragmented nature of people's (media) surroundings as a result of intensifying global flows.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470670590.wbeog380
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