Global communications
Subtitle: toward a transcultural political economy
By: edited by Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao
Contributors: Chakravartty, Paula; Zhao, Yuezhi, 1965-
Series: Critical media studies
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780742540446
Subjects: Communication in politics; Mass media -- Political aspects; Communication, International
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-342) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward a transcultural political economy of global communications; title: The state and communication politics in multiple modernities; title: Neoliberal strategies, socialist legacies: communication and state transformation in China / Yuezhi Zhao; title: Media, state, and responses to globalization in post-communist Russia / Olessia Koltsova; title: Regional crisis, personal solutions: the media's role in securing neoliberal hegemony in Singapore / Soek-Fang Sim; title: Regulating the consciousness industry in the European Union: legitimacy, identity, and the changing state / Katharine Sarikakis; title: Media, democracy and the state in Venezuela's 'Bolivarian Revolution' / Robert Duffy and Robert Everton; title: Embedded markets and cultural transformations; title: Cultures of empire: transnational media flows and cultural (dis)connections in East Asia / Koichi Iwabuchi; title: Local and global sites of power in the circulation of Ghanania Adinkra / Boatema Boateng; title: Critical transculturalism and Arab reality television: a preliminary theoretical exploration / Marwan Kraidy; title: Rethinking the U.S. Spanish-language media market in an era of deregulation / Mari Castañeda; title: Civil society and multiple publics; title: Gender and empire: veilomentaries and the war on terror / Sunera Thobani; title: Neoliberalism, non-governmental organizations, and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa / Arthur Martins-Aginam; title: Move over Bangalore, here comes . . . Palestine? Western funding and "Internet development" in the shrinking Palestinian state / Helga Tawil Souri; title: Labor in or as civil society? workers and subaltern publics in India's information society / Paula Chakravarty; title: References