Includes bibliographical references and index. New Book -- May -- 2013
Contents:
Introduction / Lisa Parks and James Schwoch -- I. Concepts and cartographies. The invention of air space, outer space, and cyberspace / James Hay -- Dethroning the view from above: toward a critical social analysis of satellite ocularcentrism / Barney Warf -- The geostationary orbit: a critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate / Christy Collis -- "Freedom to communicate": ideology and the global in the iridium satellite venture / Martin Collins -- The NAVSTAR global positioning system: from military tool to global utility / Rick W. Sturdevant -- Satellites, oil, and footprints: EUTELSAT, KAZSAT, and post-communist territories in central Asia / Lisa Parks -- II: Satellite mediascapes. From satellite to screen: how Arab TV is shaped in space / Naomi Sakr -- Beyond the terrestrial?: networked distribution, multimodal media, and the place of the local in satellite radio / Alexander Russo and Bill Kirkpatrick -- Crossing borders: the introduction and legislation of satellite radio in Canada / Brian O'Neill and Michael Murphy -- Worldspace satellite radio and the South African footprint / Ben Aslinger -- Content vs. delivery: the global battle for German satellite television / Paul Torre -- III: Orbital matters. When satellites fall: on the trails of Cosmos 954 and USA 193 / Lisa Parks -- AFP-731 or the other night sky: an allegory / Trevor Paglen -- Microsatellites: a bellwether of Chinese aerospace progress? / Andrew S. Erickson -- Disjecta membra, the Kármán line, and the 38th parallel / James Schwoch.
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