Remediation and local globalizations: How Taiwan's "digital video knights-errant puppetry" writes the history of the new media in Chinese

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-313

  Silvio, Teri ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Digital technologies; Globalization; Puppetry; Remediation; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247334971     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/can.2007.22.2.285     Document Type: Article

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