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Understanding Global Media

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ISBN-10: 1403920494

ISBN-13: 9781403920492

Edition: 2007

Authors: Terry Flew

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Understanding Global Media offers a comprehensive overview of global media production and circulation, drawing insight from a range of perspectives, including politics, political economy, media and cultural studies, and creative industries. Grounded in extensive case study material in order to illustrate key debates, the book analyzes media industries, production, content, audiences, and policies on an international scale. It is both a comprehensive synthesis of existing academic work and an ambitious statement of new research directions. This book is an essential guide to understanding media today.
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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 3/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He has been seconded from QUT to act as a Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission from May 2011 to February 2012, chairing the Inquiry into the National Classification Scheme in Australia.

List of Figures, Tables and Case Studies
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction to Global Media: Key Concepts
Introduction
Media and Power
Media Markets: Audiences, Advertisers, Finance and Creative Content
Media Organizations and Policy
Media and Culture
New Media Technologies
Media in Space: Understanding Global Media
Theories of Global Media
Introduction
Critical Political Economy
Cultural Studies
Institutionalism, Media Corporations and Public Policy
Rethinking State Capacities: Cultural Policy Studies
Cultural and Economic Geography
Theories of 'Strong Globalization' and their Critics
Strong Globalization Theories: a Critique
Globalization and Global Media Corporations
Introduction: Globalization and the Media
Critical Political Economy and Global Media
Questioning Media Globalization
New Theories of Globalization and Foreign Investment: Perspectives from Economic Geography
Global Media, the Knowledge Economy and the New Competition
Introduction
Knowledge Economy
New Competition
Network Organization
Clusters and the Economic Geography of Competitive Advantage
Global Production Networks
Globalization and the Continuing Social Embeddedness of Market Relations
Asymmetrical Interdependence and Cultural Reconversion
Revising Cultural Imperialism: Cultural and Economic Perspectives
The Globalization of Media Production Centres: 'Race to the Bottom' or Cultural Technology Transfer?
Global Media Cultures
Introduction: Four Ways to Think about Culture
Integrating Diverse Conceptions of Culture
Culture and Citizenship
Global Culture, Identity and Hybridity
From Sovereignty to Software: National Media Policies in an Age of Global Media
Introduction: Beyond National Culture?
Media Policy and the Regulatory State
Cultural Policy and the Portective State: the State in its Ordinary Dimension
The Limits of Cultural Policy in the Contemporary Global Media Context
Creative Industries Policy and the Enabling State
Sub-national Cultural Policy: Creative Cities and Creative Clusters
Supra-national Media and Cultural Policy: Trade Agreements, Cultural Diversity and Global Civil Society
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Conclusion: Theories of Global Media Revisited
How Significant Is Media Globalization?
The Knowledge Economy and the Creative Industries: Different Ways of Thinking about Global Media
The Politics of Globalization and Media Policy: Beyond Sanguinity and Critique
Notes
Bibliography
Index