Digitally Not Yours: Spatial Discourses and Discursive Spaces for Brazilian Digital Television Policy in ManausFootnote¹

1. Funding for this project has been generously provided by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Chad Fernberg provided research assistance. I would also like to acknowledge the generous help from professors at the Federal University of Amazonas and the comments from anonymous reviewers. Any errors found in this article are my own.

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