Prinsloo, Mastin
Rowsell, Jennifer
2012-07-01
The focus on electronic media as placed resources in this Introduction to this special
issue draws attention to the varied and specific ways that media resources are taken hold
of in divergent social settings. We argue that communicative resources of all kinds, in
their uses and functions, are shaped by context and place, and we examine what that
means for people engaging with new media resources, particularly people who are not
part of the global mainstream. The case is made that research needs to take account
of the specificity, affordances and limits of place, conceived both in geographic terms
and as social sites that are shaped by politics, history, economics and cultural practices.
At the same time, research has to pay attention to ways that electronic media offer
translocal resources and practices for engagement. Digital media exist in the local and
offer agency to users in the papers presented here, but not without the constraints that
mark their status as persons located on the globalised periphery.
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