If They Show<i>Prison Break</i>in the United States on a Wednesday, by Thursday It Is Here

Pertierra, Anna Cristina

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“…This is why our interviewees stated that they do not watch every single program they download but they rather “store” them (OK, PS, etc.). Anna Cristina Pertierra (2012) also observed that for her study’s technology-literate, young, educated Cubans, the external hard drive was a unique and specific form of “mobile media” that allowed closer proximity to the global circuits of popular culture.…”

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Making Home through Cord-cutting: The Case of Korean Transient Migrants’ Postcable Culture in the United States

Lee

2018

Television & New Media

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With the rapid development of new media technology, many people are “cutting the cords” and viewing television through Internet-based video services via streaming or downloading. This study aims to better understand and contextualize this phenomenon through investigating Korean transient migrants’ television-viewing practices. Through forty qualitative interviews and employing the framework of the domestication theory perspective, this article examines how these deterritorialized individuals who experience dislocation make home through cord-cutting practices. By making use of the Internet and delivery technologies/interfaces legally and illegally, Korean transient migrants go beyond territorial limitations and make home materially, feel home affectively, and connect home relationally in their diasporic space. Moreover, the study debunks some utopian ideas about online audiences and shows what remains fixed in terms of transnational postcable culture. I argue that the article provides many insights into investigating contemporary television audiences and suggest a novel approach to studying migrant media practices.

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Making Home through Cord-cutting: The Case of Korean Transient Migrants’ Postcable Culture in the United States

Lee

2018

Television & New Media

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“…It would be impossible to consume all the media it contains in time for the next update, let alone have the necessary disk space. Instead, people form their own paquetes with the help of local vendors, family, and friends who swap content with one another (Pertierra 2012). Because of the massive amount of updated content weekly, there is an ephemeral quality to el paquete, as people necessarily delete and make space for new content all the time.…”

Section: El Paquetementioning

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Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture

Laguna

2022

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Years before Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced a "thaw" in US-Cuba relations on December 17, 2014 (17D), Cubans were intensifying ties through the transnational circulation of popular culture. To understand Cuba and its diaspora in the twenty-first century, it is essential that we attend to the transnational networks in place before 17D that continue to shape quotidian life for people on and off the island. I begin in Miami, with the "afterlives" of a comic variety show called Sabadazo-popular on the island during the 1990s-to illustrate how what it means to be Cuban, politically and culturally, has shifted away from the exile generation that arrived in the 1960s and 1970s. I complement this analysis with attention to generational tensions within the diaspora and representations of race and sexuality. I then move to the island to examine el paquete (the package), a terabyte's worth of mostly foreign media updated and distributed across the island weekly. I contend that the economic and cultural impact of el paquete cannot be fully understood without careful consideration of the role of the Cuban diaspora.

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“…While there is a vast literature on mobile media and communication, and a smaller yet significant literature on portable music storage devices (Bull, 2008; Sterne, 2012) and other portable objects (Ito et al, 2009), little work has been done to date specifically on more general portable storage devices, such as USB portable hard drives, and associated practices of use. A notable exception to this general lack of scholarship is Anna Pertierra’s (2012) rich account of Cuban use of portable hard drives for the storage and circulation of media content. As Pertierra notes, ‘whereas internationally the connectivity of mobile media is an appealing feature, in Cuba the disconnectivity of hard drives is even more appealing’ (p. 405) as much of the content that is uploaded onto them circulates via informal markets.…”

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Liminoid media: On the enduring significance of USB portable flash drives

Kennedy

Wilken

2021

New Media & Society

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This article draws on the findings of in-depth interviews with consumers of portable storage devices in Melbourne, Australia, to explore the enduring significance of Universal Serial Bus (USB) portable flash drives. In the article, we develop the concept of ‘liminoid media’ as a way of coming to terms with continued use, and complications of use. Our understanding of this term is inspired by the seminal anthropological writings of Victor Turner ( pace Arnold van Gennep), more recent scholarship applying liminality to media studies and debates within media theory concerning the status of old and new media (where it has been argued, among other things, that media are always in transition rather than part of a strict old–new binary). Against this backdrop, we employ ‘liminoid media’ as a way of making critical sense of the ‘betwixt and between’ status of USB portable flash drives – their ongoing ‘suspendedness’ – and the complicated tensions that characterise participant use of these devices. For our participants, USBs are understood as fulfilling a compromise between emergent practices of cloud computing and more established forms of centralised data storage; they are understood as temporary data storage devices that are often used in semi-permanent ways to protect against data loss; they are seen as ephemeral devices that are rarely disposed of. USBs are also ‘ritualised’ insofar as they frequently become intimate, aestheticised everyday objects; yet, accompanying this ritualised ‘suspendedness’ are certain forms of risk and danger – of obsolescence, of data loss, of device failure, and so on. USBs, in short, occupy an essential if complicated position in people’s contemporary data storage practices. Examining USBs, and the practices of use that surround them, we argue, provides insight into current (and always ongoing) changes in the media environment, and demonstrates the extent to which liminoid media are contemporary in use.

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If They ShowPrison Breakin the United States on a Wednesday, by Thursday It Is Here

Abstract: This article describes practices of informal digital media circulation emerging in urban Cuba between 2005 and 2010, drawing from interviews and ethnographic research in

Cited by 36 publications

References 17 publications

Making Home through Cord-cutting: The Case of Korean Transient Migrants’ Postcable Culture in the United States

Making Home through Cord-cutting: The Case of Korean Transient Migrants’ Postcable Culture in the United States

Before the Thaw: The Transnational Routes of Cuban Popular Culture

Liminoid media: On the enduring significance of USB portable flash drives

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