Global currents: media and technology now

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crypto Regs — Fear, Greed, and the Destruction of the Digital Commons -- What We Should Do and What We Should Forget in Media Studies — Or, My TV A–Z -- Hybridity -- @henryparkesmotel.com -- Is Television a Global Medium? — A Historical View -- The Land Grab for Bandwidth — Digital Conversion in an Era of Consolidation -- Posthuman Law — Information Policy and the Machinic World -- Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry -- Unsuitable Coverage — The Media, the Veil, and Regimes of Representation -- Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence — The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images -- The African Diaspora Speaks in Digital Tongues -- Some Versions of Difference — Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics -- Alternate Arrangement for Global Currents -- Notes on contributors -- Index