TY - BOOK AU - Thussu,Daya Kishan TI - Electronic empires: global media and local resistance SN - 034071896X (pbk.) AV - P96.I5 E4 1998 U1 - 302.2 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Arnold KW - Communication, International N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Notes on contributors --; Introduction --; Sect. I; Globalisation of Electronic Empires --; 1; Striving for communication dominance: a half-century review --; 2; Media convergence and globalisation --; 3; Full of Eastern promise? Central and Eastern European media after 1989 --; 4; Infotainment international: a view from the South --; Discussion questions --; Sect. II; Global Media: A Global Public Sphere? --; 5; What price the public sphere? --; 6; Is there a global public sphere? --; 7; Privatising public space --; 8; Worldwide wedge: division and contradiction in the global information infrastructure --; Discussion questions --; Sect. III; Debating Media Globalisation --; 9; Media imperialism reformulated --; 10; Global and regional dynamics of international television flows --; 11; Trends in global media reception --; 12; Feminist internationalism: imagining and building global civil society --; Discussion questions --; Sect. IV; Global Media and Local Resistance --; 13; The right to communicate --; 14; An alternative globalization: youthful resistance to electronic empires --; 15; Electronic empires: an Islamic perspective --; 16; Localising the global: Zee TV in India --; Discussion questions --; Author index --; Subject index ER -