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contents @ Acknowledgments — ix Introduction — 1 Lisa Parks and James Schwoch I Concepts and Cartographies 1 The Invention of Air Space, Outer Space, and Cyberspace — 19 James Hay 2 Dethroning the View from Above: Toward a Critical Social Analysis of Satellite Ocularcentrism — 42 Barney Warf 3 The Geostationary Orbit: A Critical Legal Geography of Space’s Most Valuable Real Estate — 61 Christy Collis 4 “Freedom to Communicate”: Ideology and the Global in the Iridium Satellite Venture — 82 Martin Collins 5 The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System: From Military Tool to Global Utility — 99 Rick W. Sturdevant 6 Satellites, Oil, and Footprints: Eutelsat, Kazsat, and Post-Communist Territories in Central Asia — 122 Lisa Parks II Satellite Mediascapes 7 From Satellite to Screen: How Arab TV Is Shaped in Space — 143 Naomi Sakr 8 Beyond the Terrestrial?: Networked Distribution, Multimodal Media, and the Place of the Local in Satellite Radio — 156 Alexander Russo and Bill Kirkpatrick 9 Crossing Borders: The Introduction and Legislation of Satellite Radio in Canada — 177 Brian O’Neill and Michael Murphy 10 WorldSpace Satellite Radio and the South African Footprint — 194 Ben Aslinger 11 Content vs. Delivery: The Global Battle for German Satellite Television — 204 Paul Torre III Orbital Matters 12 When Satellites Fall: On the Trails of Cosmos 954 and USA 193 — 221 Lisa Parks 13 AFP-731 or The Other Night Sky: An Allegory — 238 Trevor Paglen 14 Microsatellites: A Bellwether of Chinese Aerospace Progress? — 254 Andrew S. Erickson 15 Disjecta Membra, the Kármán Line, and the 38th Parallel — 280 James Schwoch Contributors — 293 Index — 297 contents viii ...