Media Ruins by Margaret Jack - ISBN: 9780262545389
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Cambodia’s youth resurrects lost media, rebuilding culture after genocide.

Media Ruins

Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    13 June 2023

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Summary

How a generation of tech-savvy young Cambodians is restoring historical media artifacts from before the war-and, in the process, helping to repair the Khmer Rouge’s cultural destruction.

During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), an estimated quarter to a third of the Cambodian population perished from execution, starvation, or disease. The regime especially targeted artists and intellectuals and their work, including films, photographs, and audio recordings. In Media Ruins, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262545389
ISBN-10:0262545381
Author:Margaret Jack
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:13 June 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Margaret Jack

Margaret Jack is a postdoctoral scholar on the NSF-funded project “Creating Work/Life” and teaches in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at NYU Tandon. Before earning her PhD in Information Science at Cornell University, she worked as a financial analyst in Silicon Valley and with international development organizations such as the WHO, UNICEF, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

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