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Title De-Westernizing media studies / edited by James Curran and Myung-Jin Park
Published London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource
Series Communication and society
Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Introduction. 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 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 Rønning 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 -- Index
Summary De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mass media criticism.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Mass media -- Developing countries -- Case studies
Mass media
Mass media criticism
Mass media -- Social aspects
Massamedia.
Internationalisatie.
Developing countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Curran, James
Park, Myung-Jin
ISBN 0203981766
9780203981764
Other Titles Dewesternizing media studies