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Electronic Empires Global Media and Local Resistance

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ISBN-10: 0340718951

ISBN-13: 9780340718957

Edition: 1998

Authors: Daya Kishan Thussu

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Electronic Empires centres on current debates on globalization, the public sphere and the potential of the Internet for empowerment.
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Book details

List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Hodder Education Group
Publication date: 12/17/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Daya Kishan Thussuis Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India MediaCentre at the University of Westminster in London.He is the Founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media andCommunication. Among his main publications are: Electronic Empires (1998); InternationalCommunication - Continuity and Change, second edition (2006); War andthe Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (2003); Media on the Move - Global Flow and Contra-flow (2007); News as Entertainment (2007) and Internationalizing Media Studies (2009).He is series editor for two Routledge book series: Internationalizing MediaStudies and Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies.

Notes on contributors
Introduction
Globalisation of Electronic Empires
Striving for communication dominance: a half-century review
Media convergence and globalisation
Full of Eastern promise? Central and Eastern European media after 1989
Infotainment international: a view from the South
Discussion questions
Global Media: A Global Public Sphere?
What price the public sphere?
Is there a global public sphere?
Privatising public space
Worldwide wedge: division and contradiction in the global information infrastructure
Discussion questions
Debating Media Globalisation
Media imperialism reformulated
Global and regional dynamics of international television flows
Trends in global media reception
Feminist internationalism: imagining and building global civil society
Discussion questions
Global Media and Local Resistance
The right to communicate
An alternative globalization: youthful resistance to electronic empires
Electronic empires: an Islamic perspective
Localising the global: Zee TV in India
Discussion questions
Author index
Subject index