Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Institutions: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Globalization
6. Crypto Regs — Fear, Greed, and the Destruction of the Digital Commons 13
7. What We Should Do and What We Should Forget in Media Studies — Or, My TV A–Z 42
8. Hybridity 65
9. @henryparkesmotel.com 81
10. Is Television a Global Medium? — A Historical View 93
11. The Land Grab for Bandwidth — Digital Conversion in an Era of Consolidation 113
12. Posthuman Law — Information Policy and the Machinic World 136
13. II. Circulation: Cultures, Strategies, Appropriations
14. Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry 159
15. Unsuitable Coverage — The Media, the Veil, and Regimes of Representation 171
16. Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence — The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images 186
17. The African Diaspora Speaks in Digital Tongues 200
18. Some Versions of Difference — Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics 219
19. Alternate Arrangement for Global Currents 245
20. Notes on contributors 247
21. Index 251