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REVERSE ENGINEERING: DISMANTLING AND CUSTOMIZING FOR THE NEW GLOBAL MEDIA ECOLOGY.

The article examines how reverse engineering dismantles and customizes technologies for the new global media ecology. It says that the engineering offers a way to conceptualize a radical media insurgency in these new media ecologies. Vietnamese recycled the metal from downed U.S. warplanes and made...

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Published in:Afterimage Vol. 34; no. 1/2; pp. 66 - 73
Main Author: Zimmermann, Patricia R.
Format: Article
Published: University of California Press Jul-Oct2006
Subjects:
Reverse engineering
Technology
Waste recycling
Engineering
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article examines how reverse engineering dismantles and customizes technologies for the new global media ecology. It says that the engineering offers a way to conceptualize a radical media insurgency in these new media ecologies. Vietnamese recycled the metal from downed U.S. warplanes and made traps to fight U.S. ground troops.