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De-Westernizing media studies

Title By: Park, Myung-Jin [Edited by] | Curran, James [Edited by]
Material type: BookSeries: Communication and society.Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2006.Description: ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780415193955Other title: Dewesternizing media studies.Subject(s): Mass media criticism | Mass media -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Developing countries -- Case studies | Mass media criticism | Mass media -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Case studies -- Developing countriesDDC classification: 302.23 DE WE Online resources: Location Map
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In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. 1. Beyond globalization theory / James Curran and Myung-Jin Park -- Pt. 1. Transitional and mixed societies. 2. Rethinking media studies: The case of China / Eric Kit-wai Ma ; 3. Media theory after the fall of European communism: Why the old models from East and West won't do any more / Colin Sparks ; 4. Media in South America: Between the rock of state and the hard place of the market / Silvio Waisbord ; 5. Television, gender, and democratization in the Middle East / Annabelle Sreberny ; 6. Power, profit, corruption, and lies: The Russian media in the 1990s / Brian McNair -- Pt. 2. Authoritarian neo-liberal societies. 7. Media, political power, and democratization in Mexico / Daniel C. Hallin ; 8. Modernization, globalization, and the powerful state: The Korean media / Myung-Jin Park, Chang-Nam Kim and Byung-Woo Sohn ; 9. State, capital, and media: The case of Taiwan / Chin-Chuan Lee ; 10. Globalized theories and national controls: The state, the market, and the Malaysian media / Zaharom Nain -- Pt. 3. Authoritarian regulated societies. 11. The dual legacy of democracy and authoritarianism: The media and the state in Zimbabwe / Helge Rønning and Tawana Kupe ; 12. Media and power in Egypt / Hussein Amin and James Napoli -- Pt. 4. Democratic neo-liberal societies. 13. Media and power in Japan / Mitsunobu Sugiyama ; 14. Media power in the United States / W. Lance Bennett ; 15. Media and the decline of liberal corporatism in Britain / James Curran and Colin Leys ; 16. De-Westernizing Australia? Media systems and cultural coordinates / Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew -- Pt. 5. Democratic regulated societies. 17. Media and power transitions in a small country: Sweden / Peter Dahlgren ; 18.Political complexity and alternative models of journalism: The Italian case / Paolo Mancini ; 19. South African media, 1994-7: Globalizing via political economy / Keyan G. Tomaselli ; 20. Mediating modernity: Theorizing reception in a non-Western society / Arvind Rajagopal ; 21. Performing a dream and its dissolution: A social history of broadcasting in Israel / Tamar Liebes ; 22. Squaring the circle? The reconciliation of economic liberalization and cultural values in French television / Raymond Kuhn -- Index.

In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.

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