International communication: a reader / edited by Daya Kishan Thussu. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - xxiii, 590 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-566) and index.

Infrastructure for international communication. Satellites and global communication / Joseph Pelton --
The global network society / Manuel Castells --
Impact of WTO on global communication / Eli Noam --
Global media policy / Marc Raboy --
Theoretical terrains. Media and modernization / Daniel Lerner --
Communication and post-colonialism / Raka Shome and Radha Hegde --
Development communication / Srinivas Melkote --
Communication and digital capitalism / Dan Schiller --
Global media systems. Media imperialism / Oliver Boyd-Barrett --
Homogenizing media cultures? / Daniel Hallin and Poulo Mancini --
The global media system / Robert McChesney --
Contra-flow in global media / Daya Thussu --
Anglo-American Media in decline? / Jeremy Tunstall --
Dominant and alternative discourses. Cultural imperialism / Herbert Schiller --
Communication and cultural proximity / Joseph Straubhaar --
The Islamic Internet / Lina Khatib --
Alternative media /John Downing --
Communication and power. Global communication as ideology / Armand Mattelart --
Communication as propaganda / Harold Lasswell --
Soft Power / Joseph Nye --
Media and sovereignty / Monroe Price --
Cultures of global communication. Global media consumption / Elihu Katz and Tamar Leibes --
Disjunctures of global culture / Arjun Appadurai --
Cultures of diasporic media / Karim H. Karim --
Decentred globalization / Kochi Iwabuchi --
Hybridity and globalization / Marwan Kraidy --
Global creative convergence / Mark Deuze.

9780415444552 (hardback : alk. paper)


Communication, International.
Mass media and technology.
Communication and culture.
Mass media policy.
Globalization.

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