Electronic empires :  global media and local resistance / 
edited by Daya Kishan Thussu. 
 - ix, 310 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Notes on contributors --  Introduction --  Globalisation of Electronic Empires --  Striving for communication dominance: a half-century review --  Media convergence and globalisation --  Full of Eastern promise? Central and Eastern European media after 1989 --  Infotainment international: a view from the South --  Discussion questions --  Global Media: A Global Public Sphere? --  What price the public sphere? --  Is there a global public sphere? --  Privatising public space --  Worldwide wedge: division and contradiction in the global information infrastructure --  Discussion questions --  Debating Media Globalisation --  Media imperialism reformulated --  Global and regional dynamics of international television flows --  Trends in global media reception --  Feminist internationalism: imagining and building global civil society --  Discussion questions --  Global Media and Local Resistance --  The right to communicate --  An alternative globalization: youthful resistance to electronic empires --  Electronic empires: an Islamic perspective --  Localising the global: Zee TV in India --  Discussion questions --  Author index --  Subject index.  Sect. I.  1.  2.  3.  4.  Sect. II.  5.  6.  7.  8.  Sect. III.  9.  10.  11.  12.  Sect. IV.  13.  14.  15.  16. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>034071896X (pbk.) 0340718951 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98007877 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communication, International
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P96.I5  / E4 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.2