De-westernizing communication research
Subtitle: altering questions and changing frameworks
By: edited by Georgette Wang.
Contributors: Wang, Georgette.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415575454; 9780203846599
Subjects: Communication -- Research; Postmodernism
Table of contents: title: Beyond de-westernizing communication research: an introduction / Georgette Wang; title: Eurocentrism in communication research: the problem and its contributing factors : de-westernizing communication: strategies for neutralizing cultural myths / Molefi Kete Asante; title: Emerging global divides in media and communication theory: European universalism versus non-Western reactions / Shelton Gunaratne; title: Globalizing media and communication studies: thoughts on the translocal and the modern / Marwan Kraidy; title: Orientalism, occidentalism and communication research /Georgette Wang; title: The promises of focusing on the particular De-Westernizing" communication studies in Chinese societies / Paul S.N. Lee; title: To Westernize or not: That's NOT the question / Wei-wen Chung; title: Pitfalls of cross-Cultural analysis: Chinese Wenyi Film and Melodrama Emilie / Yueh-yu Yeh; title: From cultural specificity to cultural generality: The possibility of universal universality; title: The geography of theory and the place of knowledge: Pivots, peripheries and waiting rooms / David Morley; title: Journeys to the west: the making of Asian modernities / Graham Murdock; title: Beyond the Dichotomy of Communication Studies / Guo-Ming Chen; title: Beyond ethnocentrism in communication theory: towards a culture-centric approach / Eddie C. Y. Kuo and Han Ei Chew; title: Deconceptualizing de-westernization: science of meaning as an alternative / Yaly Chao; title: Opportunities, limitations, and implications for future research: Whither Eurocentrism media, culture and nativism in our time / Gholam Khiabany; title: The Production of Asian theories of communication: contexts and challenges / Wimal Dissanayake; title: The definition and types of alternative discourses / Syed Farid Alatas; title: After the fall of the Tower of Babel: Culture-commensurability as a point of departure / Georgette Wang.