Media Rurality - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 147802979X ISBN 13: 9781478029793

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings alike. From the boglands of Ireland to data centers in the Oregon countryside to the homemade media systems of rural Tanzania, the contributors to this volume show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism. Approaching the study of rurality through a materialist lens that foregrounds infrastructure, this collection shows how rural spaces often bear the environmental brunt of capitalist development while being relegated to the economic and cultural periphery.

Contributors. Christopher Ali, Patrick Bresnihan, Patrick Brodie, Darin Barney, Jenna Burrell, Jordan B. Kinder, Burç Köstem, Cindy Lin, Emily Ng, Lisa Parks, Anne Pasek, Esther Peeren, Nicole Starosielski, Ishita Tiwary, Hunter Vaughan, Ayesha Vemuri, Megan Wiessner, Assatu Wisseh

About this title

About the Author

Patrick Brodie is Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin.

Darin Barney is Professor of Communication Studies at McGill University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147802979X
• ISBN 13: 9781478029793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Brodie Patrick, Barney Darin