Electronic Empires Global Media and Local Resistance

Name: Electronic Empires Global Media and Local Resistance
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ISBN: 9780340718964

ISBN-10: 034071896X

ISBN-13: 9780340718964

Edition: 1998

Authors: Daya Kishan Thussu

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New communication technologies and the opening up of global markets are transforming the world's media and cultural industries. Colonizing the imagination of consumers worldwide, the virtual empires of the electronic age have a profound effect on national media systems and cultural sovereignty. This book centers on current debates on globalization, the public sphere, and the potential of the Internet for empowerment. Written by a group of internationally renowned contributors, it looks at the effects of large transnational media corporations on national and regional media.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Hodder Education
Publication date: 12/24/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



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