"Twenty-four highly accomplished and prominent media scholars representing ten countries provide a survey of international communication, public relations and advertising, implications of globalization, international law and regulation, global culture, propaganda, transnational media, the shifting p
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olitics of media, trends in communication and information technology, and much more. The fourth edition includes six new contributors (Lee B. Artz, Daniela V. Dimitrova, Berna Ackali Gur, Petros Iosifidis, Perry Keller, and Nicholas Nicoli) who cover such issues as politics of global culture, global theories, global law, implications of internet and politics. Other chapters are fully updated to foreground contemporary examples and major events that have impacted our global communication environment. Collectively, new contributions and updated chapters reflect the rapid technological and communications changes that are taking place nationally and globally." (Publisher description)
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"Brings together diverse issues and expert perspectives of twenty-two notable and accomplished communication scholars, representing eight countries around the world. Together they discuss international communication, public relations and advertising, cultural implications of globalization, internati
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onal law and regulation, transnational media, the shifting politics of media, trends in communication and information technology, and much more. The Third Edition is fully updated to reflect major events that have impacted our global communication environment. Three new chapters on “global journalism” and “gender, ethnicity, and religion,” and “Shifting Politics in Global Media and Communication” have been added to make this volume more comprehensive." (Publisher description)
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"This book maps out the expansion of media and telecommunications corporations within the macro-economic context of liberalisation, deregulation and privitisation. It then goes on to explore the impact of such growth on audiences in different cultural contexts and from regional, national and interna
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tional perspectives. Each chapter contains engaging case studies which exemplify the main concepts and arguments." (Back cover)
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"This piece examines the historical construction of a Lusophone cultural-linguistic media space and market that spans portions of Europe, Africa, and South America. Beginning with the Portuguese colonization of Brazil and Lusophone Africa in the 17th century and continuing to the contemporary moment
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, our discussion examines how a combination of political, ideological, and economic patterns created linkages between Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking colonies in Africa (namely Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique). After examining how Brazil grew to become the dominant cultural producer in this transnational matrix (most explicitly expressed through the massive exports of telenovelas and music since the late 1970s), we examine how other countries are beginning to carve out distinctive national niches, including the contemporary music scene in Cape Verde and the rise of domestically produced telenovelas in Portugal and Angola that are increasing in circulation in the contemporary transnational Lusophone media space." (Abstract)
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"Der erste Teil geht auf die Anfänge des Auslandsrundfunks in Europa Ende der 1920er-Jahre sowie auf seine Rolle während des Zweiten Weltkriegs ein. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird anschließend die komplexe Gründungsgeschichte der DW nach 1945 dargestellt. Der zweite Teil des Buches beschäftigt sic
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h mit dem Selbstverständnis und der Außenwahrnehmung der Rolle des Senders im Kalten Krieg. Und im dritten Teil geht es um die Neuorientierung der DW nach der Wende: Der Sender übernahm den ehemaligen Auslandsrundfunk der DDR, die Fernsehsparte sowie zahlreiche Mitarbeiter von RIAS und auch die Fremdsprachendredaktionen des »Deutschlandfunks«. Doch weder der technische und personelle Ausbau noch das neue DW-GeSetz konnten die Frage nach einer neuen Rollenbestimmung des deutschen Auslandsrundfunks befriedigend beantworten. 60 Jahre nach seiner Gründung ist die Existenz des Senders immer noch nicht selbstverständlich und wird stets aufs Neue debattiert. Durch das Aufbrechen alter Ost-West-Konfliktlinien und durch die Entstehung globaler kultureller Konflikte in den vergangenen Jahren ist die Frage nach der Funktion und der Bedeutung des Auslandsrundfunks wieder sehr aktuell." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Traces the history of international broadcasting - broadcasting outside national frontiers - from the early days of radio to the present, with a look at the impact of these broadcasts and how they can be measured. The authors also examine some of the problems inherent in the practice, including jam
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ming, and they consider the future of the medium. They explain that they have made the study as comprehensive as possible, but because of the wide range of the subject, the number of stations involved, and the difficulty in getting facts, there are inevitable omissions. There is a bibliography and an appendix, "Estimated Total Programme Hours Per Week of Some External Broadcasters." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 539)
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