Description |
ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Communication and society |
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Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
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Contents |
1. Beyond globalization theory / James Curran and Myung-Jin Park -- pt. 1. Transitional and mixed societies. 2. Rethinking media studies: The case of China / Eric Kit-Wai Ma. 3. Media theory after the fall of European communism: Why the old models from East and West won't do any more / Colin Sparks. 4. Media in South America: Between the rock of the state and the hard place of the market / Silvio Waisbord. 5. Television, gender, and democratization in the Middle East / Annabelle Sreberny. 6. Power, profit, corruption, and lies: The Russian media in the 1990s / Brian McNair -- pt. 2. Authoritarian neo-liberal societies. 7. Media, political power, and democratization in Mexico / Daniel C. Hallin. 8. Modernization, globalization, and the powerful state: The Korean media / Myung-Jin Park, Chang-Nam Kim and Byung-Woo Sohn. 9. State, capital, and media: The case of Taiwan / Chin-Chuan Lee. 10. Globalized theories and national controls: The state, the market, and the Malaysian media / Zaharom Nain -- pt. 3. Authoritarian regulated societies. 11. The dual legacy of democracy and authoritarianism: The media and the state in Zimbabwe / Helge Ronning and Tawana Kupe. 12. Media and power in Egypt / Hussein Amin and James Napoli -- pt. 4. Democratic neo-liberal societies. 13. Media and power in Japan / Mitsunobu Sugiyama. 14. Media power in the United States / W. Lance Bennett. 15 |
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Media and the decline of liberal corporatism in Britain / James Curran and Colin Leys. 16. De-Westernizing Australia? Media systems and cultural coordinates / Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew -- pt. 5. Democratic regulated societies. 17. Media and power transitions in a small country: Sweden / Peter Dahlgren. 18. Political complexity and alternative models of journalism: The Italian case / Paolo Mancini. 19. South African media, 1994-7: Globalizing via political economy / Keyan G. Tomaselli. 20. Mediating modernity: Theorizing reception in a non-Western society / Arvind Rajagopal. 21. Performing a dream and its dissolution: A social history of broadcasting in Israel / Tamar Liebes. 22. Squaring the circle? The reconciliation of economic liberalization and cultural values in French television / Raymond Kuhn |
Summary |
These case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Australia explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization |
Analysis |
Mass media criticism |
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Mass media Developing countries Case studies |
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Mass media Social aspects |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Mass media criticism.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
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Mass media -- Developing countries.
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Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Author |
Curran, James.
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Park, Myung-Jin.
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LC no. |
00269556 |
ISBN |
041519394X |
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0415193958 paperback |
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9780415193948 |
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9780415193955 paperback |
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