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Global communications : toward a transcultural political economy / edited by Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical media studiesPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0742540448
  • 9780742540446
  • 0742540456
  • 9780742540453
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1014 22
LOC classification:
  • JA85 .G56 2008
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.

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.

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.

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