ISBN:
9780203981764
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
Series Statement:
Communication and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Curran, James De-Westernizing Media Studies
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Developing countries
Abstract:
De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?
Abstract:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Beyond globalization theory -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Transitional and mixed societies -- 2 Rethinking media studies -- THE CASE OF CHINA -- Media commercialization3 -- Improvising media practices4 -- Uneven liberalization6 -- The Hong Kong connection8 -- RETHINKING MEDIA STUDIES -- Benign market capitalism? -- The bureaucratic-authoritarian state -- The active audience -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3 Media theory after the fall of European communism -- Note -- References -- 4 Media in South America -- References -- 5 Television, gender, and democratization in the Middle East1 -- Notes -- References -- 6 Power, profit, corruption, and lies -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Authoritarian neo-liberal societies -- 7 Media, political power, and democratization in Mexico -- Notes -- References -- 8 Modernization, globalization, and the powerful state -- References -- 9 State, capital, and media -- Notes -- References -- 10 Globalized theories and national controls -- CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIA: A BRIEF BACKGROUND -- MALAYSIA'S CONTEMPORARY MEDIA: STATE CONTROL AND COMMERCIAL MOTIVATIONS -- Television -- The press -- Legal controls -- IMPORTED THEORIES, DOMESTIC CONTRADICTIONS -- De-westernizing, demonizing and democratic space -- Notes -- References -- Part 3 Authoritarian regulated societies -- 11 The dual legacy of democracy and authoritarianism -- Notes -- References -- 12 Media and power in Egypt -- References -- Part 4 Democratic neo-liberal societies -- 13 Media and power in Japan -- Bibliography -- 14 Media power in the United States -- THE MEDIA AND POLITICAL POWER -- POWER I: MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF COERCION -- Mediated crime -- Understanding the culture business -- POWER II: MEDIATED GOVERNMENT
Abstract:
How a commercial press reports on a complex government -- Origins of news agendas and sources of political information -- The rise of scandals and tabloid journalism -- The irony of a free press -- POWER III: MEDIATED CONSCIOUSNESS -- Deeper problems of public consciousness -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- References -- 15 Media and the decline of liberal corporatism in Britain -- Notes -- References -- 16 De-Westernizing Australia? -- References -- Part 5 Democratic regulated societies -- 17 Media and power transitions in a small country -- Note -- References -- 18 Political complexity and alternative models of journalism -- Notes -- References -- 19 South African media, 1994-7 -- Notes -- References -- 20 Mediating modernity -- A HINDU EPIC GOES PRIME TIME -- Viewers talk about the Ramayan -- NARRATIVES OF COMMUNITY: COUNTER-PUBLIC SPHERE IN A TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY -- Notes -- References -- 21 Performing a dream and its dissolution -- References -- 22 Squaring the circle? -- References -- Index
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