Media Rurality / Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney 1 Part I. Extractive Mediations 1. Green Data Capitalism and Its Rural Extractions / Megan Wiessner, Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Hunter Vaughan 41 2. Scenes of Extraction: Mediating Rurality, Wilderness, and Hinterland in Dutch and Chinese Film / Emily Ng and Esther Peeren 65 3. Imperial Wireless: Energetic Mediation at Marconi's Connemara Station / Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie 88 4. Mediated Extraction: The Production of Dark Ruralities in the Atlantic World / Assatu Wisseh 113 Part II. Practicing Rurality 5. Mediating the Periphery: Metabolism and Technicity on the Outskirts of Istanbul / Burç Köstem 133 6.
Domestic Solar Media in Rural Tanzania: Toward an Energy-Media Matrix / Lisa Parks 157 7. Hong Kog in Siliguri/dhulabari: Exploring Media Objects and Border Towns / Ishita Tiwary 179 8. The Preservation of Embodied Masculinity in Rural Tech-Altered Workplaces / Jenna Burrell 200 Part III. Political Ruralities 9. Gas Can Imaginaries: On the Politics of Combustion, Anti-Urban Resentment, and Playing Indian at the 2022 Freedom Convoy / Jordan B. Kinder 227 10. Where the Market Dares Not Tread: Mapping Rural Broadband in the United States / Christopher Ali 252 11. The Virtual Fire / Cindy Kaiying Lin 277 12.
Embankment Economies, Soaking Ecologies, and the Conservation Zone of Kaziranga / Ayesha Vemuri 296 Acknowledgments 323 Contributors 329 Index.