| Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures Subjects: Artificial satellites in telecommunication -- Popular works; Artificial satellites -- Popular works; Telecommunication -- Social aspects -- Popular works; Mass media -- Popular works; No detailed description available for "Down to Earth". LISA PARKS is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual and coeditor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader . JAMES SCHWOCH is the senior associate dean for the School of Communication at Northwestern University in Qatar, and a professor at Northwestern University. His research explores the nexus of global media, media history, international studies, and global security. |