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Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...
Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research
In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries--the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Taking as their starting point the idea that citizens need to be briefed adequately with a full and intelligent...
Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of...
Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world’s largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues...
Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
In Network Nations, Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition...
Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
The new research presented in this volume suggests that general perceptions (cultural, psychological, geographical), allied to the customs and values of journalism, and underpinned by the uses of technology, significantly shape international news. This gives rise to a blend of the old and the new;...
Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
This book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity in an accessible and lively fashion. Based on an ethnography of Japanese engagement with media and ICT in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Takahashi offers a...
Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
