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Roaming across the disciplines of media studies, geography, and science and technology studies, Parks examines uses of satellites by broadcasters, military officials, archaeologists, and astronomers. She looks at Our World, a live intercontinental television program that reached five hundred million viewers in 1967, and Imparja tv, an Aboriginal satellite tv network in Australia. Turning to satellitesâ remote-sensing capabilities, she explores the U.S. militaryâs production of satellite images of the war in Bosnia as well as archaeologistsâ use of satellites in the excavation of Cleopatraâs palace in Alexandria, Egypt. Parksâs reflections on how Western fantasies of control are implicated in the Hubble telescopeâs views of outer space point to a broader concern: that while satellite uses promise a âglobal village,â they also cut and divide the planet in ways that extend the hegemony of the post-industrial West. In focusing on such contradictions, Parks highlights how satellites cross paths with cultural politics and social struggles.
About: In 1957 Sputnik, the worldâs first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet.
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