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Title De-Westernizing media studies / edited by James Curran and Myung-Jin Park
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

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Description ix, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Communication and society
Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
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
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
Mass media Developing countries Case studies
Mass media Social aspects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mass media criticism.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Mass media -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Mass media -- Developing countries.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Curran, James.
Park, Myung-Jin.
LC no. 00269556
ISBN 041519394X
0415193958 paperback
9780415193948
9780415193955 paperback
Other Titles Dewesternizing media studies