Fracis Cody on publics

"The political subject of publicity is deeply entangled in the very technological, linguistic, and conceptual means of its own self-production."

Mayfair Yang on Transnational dynamics

"What is occurring via the mass media in China today is no longer the simple picture of a Third World culture “locked in a life-and- death struggle with first-world cultural imperialism” (Jameson 1987: 68), but a more complex variegated process of eager accommodation, appropriation, and resistance to foreign cultures." - in Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai (2002)

Anthony Giddens on Modernity

An important feature of modernity is the "disembedding of social systems" or the "lifting out" of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their restructuring across infinite spans of time-space" (1990:21)