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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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CRESC |
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CRESC
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Diasporas and Diplomacy Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012); Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Corporate Cosmopolitanism: Diasporas and Diplomacy at the BBC World Service, 1932-2012; Part One National interests with a global reach: projection, persuasion and intonation; 1 'It is a real joy to get listening of any kind from the homeland': BBC radio and British diasporic audiences in the 1930s; 2 The colonisation of the BBC: diasporic Britons at the BBC External Services, c. 1932-1956 |
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3 'Frau Wernicke' at the BBC: wartime satire and propaganda4 Les Français parlent aux Français : voices from London on the persecution of the Jews; 5 The BBC Polish Section and the reporting of Solidarity, 1980-1983; Part Two Cultures of diplomacy in the post-war Middle East and Asia; 6 The BBC Arabic Service's dilemmatic triangle: competing elites, conflicting priorities, contested media strategies; 7 The BBC World Service from wartime propaganda to public diplomacy: the case of Iran; 8 The BBC in South Asia: from the end of Empire to the Cold War |
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9 Language, nationhood and diaspora at the BBC Urdu Service 1940-201010 Diaspora calling the homeland? The BBC Persian Service, cosmopolitanism and music listening in Iran; Part Three Corporate cosmopolitanism and the global conversation; 11 Communication for development and public diplomacy: insights from an Afghan radio drama; 12 What kind of 'global conversation'? Participation, democratic deepening and public diplomacy through BBC World Service online forums: an examination of mediated global talk about religion and politics |
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13 Discussions on BBC Chinese Have Your Say forums: national identity and international broadcasting in the interactive media eraIndex |
| Summary |
880-01 Diasporas and Diplomacy analyses the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services. The book offers the?rst historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterised the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet. A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcasting relating to:colonialism and corporate cosmopolitanismdiasp |
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880-01/$1 Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterized the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet. A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcasting relating to: colonialism and corporate cosmopolitanism diasporic and national identities public diplomacy and international relations broadcasters and audiences The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and anthropology, media and cultural studies, journalism, history, politics, international relations, as well as of research methods that cross the boundaries between the Social Sciences and Humanities. It will also appeal to broadcast journalists and practitioners of strategic communication |
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Print version record |
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BBC World Service.
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| SUBJECT |
BBC World Service fast |
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International broadcasting -- Great Britain -- History
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Mass media -- Audiences.
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Radio in propaganda -- Great Britain -- History
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International broadcasting
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Mass media -- Audiences
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Radio in propaganda
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Great Britain
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Webb, Alban
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| ISBN |
9781136448652 |
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1136448659 |
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