ABSTRACT

This volume interrogates what "global" means in the context of "communication," and who benefits from global communication practices and industries. Emerging scholars contribute their unique perspectives in communication scholarship, charting innovative directions for research that connects empirical evidence with pressing questions of social significance. This critical reflection leads to considering problems that result from the way global communication becomes mobilized, in the practice of journalism and development as well as the ICT industry.

Global Communication defines the term "globalization," through understanding the cultural geography of global, regional, national, and local media. Critical evaluations of media production, distribution, and consumption practices, within cultural contexts, offer insights into how people "mediate" the global. Chapters draw attention to communications in Latin America, the Arab World, and South Asia, complicating territorial boundaries and exploring how local audience and industry practices work within global as well as local configurations.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

New Agendas in Global Communication

chapter |15 pages

Mapping Arab Television

Structures, Sites, Genres, Flows, and Politics

chapter |16 pages

Watching TV in Havana

Revisiting the Local/Global Television Past through the Lens of the Television Present

chapter |17 pages

After Bollywood

Diasporic Media in an Age of Global Media Capitals

chapter |19 pages

Mobilizing Global Communication

For What and For Whom?

chapter |21 pages

Beyond State-Centric Frameworks

Transversal Media and the Stateless in the Burmese Borderlands

chapter |18 pages

New Mediations in the Digital Age

An Analysis of Global Communication through Professional Journalists