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标题：Rural Lines of Flight: Telecommunications and Post-Metro Dreaming
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作者：Gerard Goggin
期刊名称：Transformations
印刷版ISSN：1444-3775
出版年度：2002
期号：2
出版社：Central Queensland University
摘要：Information and communications technologies hold a prominent place inthe cultural imagination of many people living outside the Australian metropolis,especially recent ¨¦migr¨¦s. A vision of a wired pastoral conjures up the possibilities ofcity work, connections and pleasures accompanying the flight to the country. Suchaspirations have given a twist to one of the great topos of Australian post-invasioncommunications history, communications ameliorating the perceived isolation in thebush. This article examines important changes to rural telecommunications in the1990s coinciding with post-metro dreaming and digital convergence, namely the riseof local telecommunications. Neo-Foucauldian accounts of citizenship hold somepromise for explaining the criss-cross of tangled lines of flight in regionalcommunications in the twenty-first century: emergent subjectivities, utopian digitalmodes of becoming, new politics of infrastructure, reconfigured relationships amongstate, market and citizen.
关键词：telecommunications; rural; citizenship; competition; new media;convergence