ABSTRACT

This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for theory and research.

The book addresses such questions as:

  • How are national and cultural identities re-fashioned and expressed in the global era?
  • How can we best understand the emergence of multiple and sometimes antagonistic modernities worldwide?
  • How are political struggles fought and communicated on the local-national-global nexus?
  • How do we integrate emerging media environments in global communication studies?

Bringing together essays from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book will be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students on Media and Communication Studies courses, particularly those studying globalisation and global media.

Contributors: Hector Amaya  Paula Chakravartty  Andrew Crocco  Myria Georgiou  Le Han  Anikó Imre  Koichi Iwabuchi  Marwan M. Kraidy  Sara Mourad  Patrick D. Murphy  Tarik Sabry  Paddy Scannell  Piotr M. Szpunar  Guobin Yang  Barbie Zelizer

part |40 pages

Ordering Borders the Transnational Management of Subjectivity

chapter |17 pages

Transnational Nomads

Articulations of Subjectivity Across Diasporic Mediascapes

part |62 pages

Branding Nations Re-Imagining Communities in Neo-Liberal States

chapter |3 pages

Branding

Between National Boundaries and Capital Flows

chapter |21 pages

Media, Modernity, and Inequality

Aam Admi in India Inc.

chapter |21 pages

Old Nations, New Brands

Marketing Intimacy in the New Europe 1

part |34 pages

Being Modern Situating the Grand Narrative

part |39 pages

Destabilizing Orders Resistance and Social Transformation

chapter |3 pages

Resistance

From Old to New Media

chapter |16 pages

Resuscitating “Resistance” in the Age of Global Climate Change

Notes on Media, Culture and Environmental Discourse in Latin America

chapter |18 pages

Power and Transgression in the Global Media Age

The Strange Case of Twitter in China