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Down to earth :

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0813552737

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0813552745

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0813553334

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9780813552736

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9780813552743

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9780813553337

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Title Proper

Down to earth :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

satellite technologies, industries, and cultures /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Lisa Parks and James Schwoch

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Brunswick, N.J. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rutgers University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 312 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

New directions in international studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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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Artificial satellites in telecommunication, Popular works

Artificial satellites, Popular works

Mass media, Popular works

Telecommunication-- Social aspects, Popular works

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Book number

Parks, Lisa

Schwoch, James,1955-

Date of Transaction

20130503151453.0

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[Book]

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