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"Hurricane Katrina left an indelible footprint, not only on the city of New Orleans, the infrastructure of its culture, and the ecosystem of the Louisiana coast, but also on a vast spectrum of American cultural narratives and on the media that proliferate them. Magnificently assembled and superbly edited, the essays in Old and New Media after Katrina maintain the perfect intellectual pitch and stylistic tone - highly readable and relentlessly on target - to unpack with urgency and insight the neoliberal appropriation of human suffering and governmental malaise symptomatic of the nation's corroded social economy. Engaging sundry forms of mediation, from popular film and television, to reality shows and nature documentaries, to experimental art and National Public Radio, this enticing collection makes an important and very timely contribution to media studies and American studies. It's a terrific book." - Alan Nadel, author of Containment Culture and Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity
"Hurricane Katrina was experienced by most Americans as a media event at the same time that the Internet and other digital technologies were rapidly converging with 'legacy' media. This thoughtful and impassioned collection breaks new ground by examining the digital representation of the event via user-generated video technologies such as YouTube alongside the traditional mass media. Katrina graphically exposed American racial inequalities and tensions across a range of media platforms, and it was a watershed moment for an American public that faced the reality of crumbling urban infrastructure alongside the development of new digital media infrastructures and economies. Read this book to understand media convergence and its role within and response to the first great national disaster of the digital age." - Lisa Nakamura, Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
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Book Title: Old and New Media after Katrina
Editors: Diane Negra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230112100
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10266-8Published: 18 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28707-9Published: 28 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11210-0Published: 10 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 251
Topics: Media and Communication, American Culture, American Cinema and TV, Memory Studies