Electronic Elsewheres

<div> <p>Media do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience place through media technologies the essays included here examine how media construct the meanings of home community work nation and citizenship.</p> <p>Tracing how media reconfigure the boundaries between public and private-and global and local-to create electronic elsewheres the essays investigate such spaces and identities as the avatars that women are creating on Web sites analyze the role of satellite television in transforming Algerian neighborhoods inquire into the roles of radio and television in Israel and India and take a skeptical look at the purported novelty of the new media home.</p> <p>Contributors: Asu Aksoy Istanbul Bilgi U; Charlotte Brunsdon U of Warwick; Ratiba Hadj-Moussa York U (Toronto); Tamar Liebes-Plesner Hebrew U; David Morley Goldsmiths U of London; Lisa Nakamura U of Illinois; Arvind Rajagopal New York U; Kevin Robins Goldsmiths U of London; Jeffrey Sconce Northwestern U; Marita Sturken New York U; and Shunya Yoshimi U of Tokyo.</p> </div>