The myth of media globalization /
By: Hafez, Kai.
Contributor(s): Skinner, Alex.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, c2007Description: viii, 224 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745639086 (hbk.); 9780745639086:; 0745639089 (hbk.); 9780745639093 (pbk.); 0745639097 (pbk.).Subject(s): Mass media -- Political aspects | Mass media | Globalization | Culture and globalizationDDC classification: 302.23Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 302.23 HAF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0074620 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.
Theory - structural transformation of the global public sphere? -- International reporting - 'No further than Columbus...'' -- Satellite television - the renaissance of world regions -- Film and programme imports - entertainment culture as the core of media globalization -- The Internet - the Information Revolution which came too late for the 'Third Wave of democratization' -- International broadcasting - from national propaganda to global dialogue and back again -- Media and immigration - ethnicity and transculturalism in the media age -- Media policy - why the state continues to play a role -- Media capital - the limits of transnationalization.
Considering the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere, this book analyzes the degree to which media globalization is taking place. Based on a theoretical debate of media globalization, it discusses major fields of media development, including, foreign reporting, satellite TV, film, internet, foreign broadcasting, and others.
Text translated from German