Communication and power in the global era
Subtitle: orders and borders
By: edited by Marwan M. Kraidy
Series: Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780415627344; 9780415627351; 9780203102077
Subjects: Mass media and globalization; International Communication; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Mass media; Social aspects; Political aspects
Description: "This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for theory and research. The book addresses such questions as:How are national and cultural identities re-fashioned and expressed in the global era?How can we best understand the emergence of multiple and sometimes antagonistic modernities worldwide?How are political struggles fought and communicated on the local-national-global nexus? How do we integrate emerging media environments in global communication studies?Bringing together essays from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students on Media and Communication Studies courses, particularly those studying globalisation and global media.Contributors: Hector Amaya  Paula Chakravartty  Andrew Crocco  Myria Georgiou  Le Han  Anikó Imre  Koichi Iwabuchi  Marwan M. Kraidy  Sara Mourad  Patrick D. Murphy  Tarik Sabry  Paddy Scannell  Piotr M. Szpunar  Guobin Yang  Barbie Zelizer "--

"This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for theory and research. The book addresses such questions as: - How are national and cultural identities re-fashioned and expressed in the global era? - How can we best understand the emergence of multiple and sometimes antagonistic modernities worldwide? - How are political struggles fought and communicated on the local-national-global nexus? - How do we integrate emerging media environments in global communication studies? Bringing together essays from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students on Media and Communication Studies courses, particularly those studying globalisation and global media"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.