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Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State

Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers (eds.)

Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 228 pp.

"Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left b ... more

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Mapping BRICS Media

Kaarle Nordenstreng, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 272 pp.

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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
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Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 486 pp.

"The study of Chinese media is a field that is growing and evolving at an exponential rate. Not only are the Chinese media a fascinating subject for analysis in their own right, but they also offer scholars and students a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communic ... more

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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.

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Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture

John Downey, Sabina Mihelj (eds.)

Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate (2012), xii, 199 pp.

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Media and Transition in Latin America

Colin Sparks

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-34

"This article reviews the authoritarian regimes, and the subsequent transitions to democracy, that existed in Latin America in the last third of the 20th Century. It is argued that, unlike in other cases, the political science account of such changes, usually self-described as “transitology”, do ... more

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Finding the Right Place on the Map: Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective

Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd (eds.)

Bristol: intellect (2008), 301 pp.

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Globalization, Development and the Mass Media

Colin Sparks

London et al.: Sage (2007), 258 pp.

"This book gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization. It looks at the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development, ... more

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Global Activism, Global Media

Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw, Neil Stammers (eds.)

London: Pluto Press (2005), x, 235 pp.

Critical Issues in Communication: Looking Inward for Answers. Essays in Honour of K. E. Eapen

Srinivas R. Melkote, Sandhya Rao (eds.)

K. E. Eapen Honoured person)

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2001), 491 pp.

"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher description)

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De-Westernizing Media Studies

James Curran, Myung-Jin Park (eds.)

London: Routledge (2000), 342 pp.

"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?" (Publisher des ... more

The New Communications Landscape: Demystifying Media Globalization

Georgette Wang, Jan Servaes, Anura Goonasekera (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2000), xvi, 343 pp.

"The innovative and rapid growth of communication satellites and computer mediated technologies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the deregulation of national broadcasting, led many media commentators to assume that the age of national media had been lost. But what has become clear is ... more

Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media

Colin Sparks, Anna Reading

London: Sage (1998), xix, 214 pp.

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International Media Research: A Critical Survey

John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, Roger Silverstone (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (1997), x, 238 pp.

"International Media Research offers a rigorous and critical review of key approaches and concerns that have recently defined the field of media research. In this clearly argued collection of essays, the contributors analyze and reflect upon dominant themes and debates that have made media research ... more

The Media After Communism

Colin Sparks (ed.)

Media, Culture & Society, volume 16, issue 2 (1994), pp. 179-312

"[...] We consider here a wide range of post-communisms. At one extremestands the former German Democratic Republic: There, the politicalcollapse of communism immediately preceded the economic and socialdestruction of the old way of life. As Maryellen Boyle shows, theaspirations of the people who ov ... erthrew communism were swept aside bythe juggernaut of reunification. This anschluss - to borrow Habermas’shistorically loaded term -was immediately followed by the imposition ofWest German ideas and structures. Within broadcasting, this foundexpression in the setting up of a new system integrated into the existing West German framework. These structural changes were accompanied bythe appointment of Western managers, often from the ruling ChristianDemocratic Party, and an extensive purge of the existing staff. EasternGermany has been rather brutally and very finally integrated into the worldmarket at the expense of the people who ran the Stalinist state.A t the other extreme stands the Chinese experience. There the processof integration, and the destruction of central planning, are proceeding asrapidly in television as in any other part of society. The political system,however, remains controlled by the very same people who have been inpower for years. As Yu Huang shows, the massive development oftelevision in China has been largely the result of the introduction of localautonomy and a shift towards commercial financing. This has led to strainsand tensions between the central party apparatus and the broadcasters.The aftermath of Tiananmen Square was to increase political control butnot to interrupt the growth of the market. One might say that, so far atleast, the process of integration into the world market has been to thebenefit of the people who ran the old system.Between these two extremes lie the majority of countries of the formerSoviet empire in Europe and its local offshoots elsewhere. In differentcountries there have been varying degrees of political change and the scaleand extent of the introduction of market mechanisms and privatization hasbeen extremely uneven. We publish two articles which reflect on East andCentral Europe and which attempt to theorize those experiences. ColinSparks and Anna Reading look at the main currents of social theory whichhave tried t o explain the nature of the end of communism and itsaftermath. They apply propositions derived from these to the study oftelevision in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. KarolJakubowicz makes wider geographical generalizations, but concentrateshis attention mostly on Poland. Despite recognizing the continuingpolitical pressure on the media, he is finally optimistic as to the chances of‘depoliticizing’ television [...] (Editorial) more