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Cultural Diversity and Global Media The Mediation of Difference

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ISBN-10: 1405180463

ISBN-13: 9781405180467

Edition: 2010

Authors: Eugenia Siapera

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 2/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.65" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Eugenia is currently the Vice Chair of the ECREA Section on Diaspora, Migration and Media. Her current research interests are in the field of social and political theory and new media, multiculturalism and the media, online journalism, the relationship between mature and new media, and media representations of cultural diversity. Recent articles have appeared in New Media and Society, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Information Polity, while she is also the co-editor (with Joss Hands) of At The Interface: Transformations in Society, Culture and Politics (Rodopi, 2004), and the co-editor (with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Radical Democracy and the…    

(Re)thinking Cultural Diversity and the Media
The Crises of Multiculturalism
The Mediation of Cultural Diversity
The Structure of the Book
Theorizing the Nation
Theories of the Nation
A Word on Globalization
Conclusions
Varieties of Multiculturalism
A Typology of European Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism in Immigration Countries: US and Canada
Constitutively Different: India and Nigeria
Conclusions
Theories of Multiculturalism
Multicultural Dilemmas
Essentialism or Fluidity?
Universalism or Particularism?
Recognition or Redistribution?
Conclusions
Media Theories and Cultural Diversity
Socio-Psychological Approaches to Media
Medium Theory
Political-Economic Theories of the Media
Socio-Cultural Approaches to the Media
Mediation: The Difference Media Make
Conclusions
Media Production and Diversity
Media Production and Mediation
Media Corporations
Media Organizations and Media Logics
Media Workers
Conclusions
Minority and Diasporic Media: Controversies and Contributions
Why Study Minority Media?
Issues of Terminology
Theorizing the Role(s) of Diasporic Media
Diasporic Media: a Typology
The Politics of Diasporic Media
Conclusions
Theories of Representation
The Work of Representation
Stereotyping: the Cognitive Aspects of Representation
Framing and Discourse: a First Link to Ideology
Semiosis, Discourse, and Representation: an Historical Analysis
The Performative Force of Representation
Conclusions: Representation and Mediation
Regimes of Representation
The Multiplicity of Representations
The Racist Regime of Representation
The Domesticated Regime of Representation
The Regime of Commodification
Conclusions
Self-Representations of Cultural Diversity
Representational Dilemmas
The Essentialist Regime of Representation
The Alternative Regime of Representation
Conclusions
Audiences and Cultural Diversity
What Do People Do with the Media?
Audience Reception of Mediated Cultural Diversity
Ethno-Cultural Groups as Audiences
Media Consumption and Identity
Right to Reply: How Can Audiences Respond?
Conclusions
Cultural Diversity Online
The Difference the Internet Makes
Network Society and Cultural Diversity
Mediation of Cultural Diversity Internet Style
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index