Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures - Paperback
by Jody Berland
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Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262553438ISBN-10:262553430UPC:9780262553438Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCTBZTMQ80
Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures
The close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's proliferation of animals in digital networks. From cat videos to corporate logos, digital screens and spaces are crowded with animal bodies. In Virtual Menageries, Jody Berland examines the role of animals in the spread of global communications. Her richly illustrated...
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Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262553438ISBN-10:262553430UPC:9780262553438Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCTBZTMQ80
Jody Berland is Professor in the Department of Humanities and in Graduate Programs in Communication and Culture, Social and Political Thought, Science and Technology Studies, and Music, at York University, Toronto, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space.
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