Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

by Hallin, Daniel C.; Mancini, Paolo

• ISBN13: 9781107013650
• ISBN10: 1107013658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of their 'most similar systems' design and the West European and North American cases it encompassed. It is intended both to use a wider range of cases to interrogate and clarify the conceptual framework of Comparing Media Systems and to propose new models, concepts and approaches that will be useful for dealing with non-Western media systems and with processes of political transition. Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World covers, among other cases, Brazil, China, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Thailand.

Author Biography

Daniel C. Hallin is Professor of Communication at the University of California at San Diego and served as Chair of the Communication Department from 2006 to 2011. Paolo Mancini is Professor in the Department of Institutions and Society at the University of Perugia.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Introductionp	p. 1
Cases
The Impact of National Security on the Development of Media Systems: The Case of Israel	p. 11
Italianization (or Mediterraneanization) of the Polish Media System? Reality and Perspective	p. 26
Culture as a Guide in Theoretical Explorations of Baltic Media	p. 51
On Models and Margins: Comparative Media Models Viewed from a Brazilian Perspective	p. 72
Africanizing Three Models of Media and Politics: The South African Experience	p. 96
The Russian Media Model in the Context of Post-Soviet Dynamics	p. 119
Understanding China's Media System in a World Historical Context	p. 143
Methods and Approaches
The Rise of Transnational Media Systems: Implications of Pan-Arab Media for Comparative Research	p. 177
Partisan Polyvalence: Characterizing the Political Role of Asian Media	p. 201
How Far Can Media Systems Travel? Applying Hallin and Mancini's Comparative Framework outside the Western World	p. 224
Comparing Processes: Media, "Transitions," and Historical Change	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 278
References	p. 305
Index	p. 337
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