Global communications : toward a transcultural political economy
This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows interesting developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market. Other cases spotlight China, Singapore, Venezuela, Palestine, Arab nations, Ghana, Canada, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Theoretically driven and empirically grounded, "Global Communications" avoids alarmist or celebratory approaches
Print Book, English, ©2008
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, ©2008
xi, 359 pages ; 24 cm.
9780742540446, 9780742540453, 0742540448, 0742540456
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Introduction: toward a transcultural political economy of global communications
The state and communication politics in multiple modernities. Neoliberal strategies, socialist legacies: communication and state transformation in China / Yuezhi Zhao
Media, state, and responses to globalization in post-communist Russia / Olessia Koltsova
Regional crisis, personal solutions: the media's role in securing neoliberal hegemony in Singapore / Soek-Fang Sim
Regulating the consciousness industry in the European Union: legitimacy, identity, and the changing state / Katharine Sarikakis
Media, democracy and the state in Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution' / Robert Duffy and Robert Everton
Embedded markets and cultural transformations. Cultures of empire: transnational media flows and cultural (dis)connections in East Asia / Koichi Iwabuchi
Local and global sites of power in the circulation of Ghanania Adinkra / Boatema Boateng
Critical transculturalism and Arab reality television: a preliminary theoretical exploration / Marwan Kraidy
Rethinking the U.S. Spanish-language media market in an era of deregulation / Mari Castañeda
Civil society and multiple publics. Gender and empire: veilomentaries and the war on terror / Sunera Thobani
Neoliberalism, non-governmental organizations, and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa / Arthur Martins-Aginam
Move over Bangalore, here comes ... Palestine? Western funding and "Internet development" in the shrinking Palestinian state / Helga Tawil Souri
Labor in or as civil society? workers and subaltern publics in India's information society / Paula Chakravarty
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