International Communication Continuity and Change

by Thussu, Daya Kishan

• ISBN13: 9780340741313
• ISBN10: 0340741317
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-29
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This comprehensive survey charts the recent developments of technology and geo-politics and the way they affect media and communications studies. It explores their significance for the established domains of institutions, texts and audiences, drawing on a rich and genuinely international range of case studies. Daya Kishan Thussu, Senior Lecturer in Mass Communications, University of North London. This comprehensive survey charts the recent developments of technology and geo-politics and the way they affect media and communications studies. It explores their significance for the established domains of institutions, texts and audiences, drawing on a rich and genuinely international range of case studies. "The best introduction and overview of the subject in print...Works across all the important social, economic, and political issues connected to the topic, making thoughtful and persuasive arguments. The book is well organized and highly readable. Thoroughly up-to-date...is certain to become mandatory reading for all students and scholars of global media and communication."Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois "The best introduction and overview of the subject in print...Works across all the important social, economic, and political issues connected to the topic, making thoughtful and persuasive arguments. The book is well organized and highly readable. Thoroughly up-to-date...is certain to become mandatory reading for all students and scholars of global media and communication."Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois "Thussu has drawn together a huge mass of material from international organizations, companies, and the trade press in an easily accessible format."European Journal of Communication

Author Biography

Daya Kishan Thussu, Senior Lecturer in Mass Communications, University of North London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
The historical context of international communication	11	(42)
Communication and empire	11	(3)
The growth of the telegraph	14	(6)
The era of news agencies	20	(3)
The rise of Reuters	21	(2)
The advent of popular media	23	(3)
Radio and international communication	26	(1)
The battle of the airwaves	27	(2)
The Cold War - from communist propaganda to capitalist persuasion	29	(10)
Covert communication - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty	32	(7)
International communication and development	39	(4)
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE)	40	(3)
The demand for a New World Information and Communication Order	43	(10)
Approaches to theorizing international communication	53	(29)
`Free flow of information'	55	(1)
Modernization theory	56	(4)
Dependency theory	60	(4)
Structural imperialism	64	(3)
Hegemony	67	(1)
Critical theory	68	(2)
The public sphere	70	(2)
Cultural Studies perspectives on international communication	72	(1)
Theories of the information society	73	(3)
Discourses of globalization	76	(5)
A critical political-economy for the twenty-first century	81	(1)
Creating a global communication infrastructure	82	(37)
The privatization of telecommunications	83	(1)
Free trade in communication	84	(6)
Liberalization of the telecom sector	90	(4)
Privatizing space - the final frontier	94	(5)
Intelsat	96	(3)
Key players in the global satellite industry	99	(13)
Murdoch's News Corporation	107	(5)
The world of telecommunications	112	(3)
Implications of a liberalized global communication regime	115	(4)
The global media marketplace	119	(48)
Convergence	119	(12)
Global trade in media products	131	(19)
Televising sport globally - ESPN	134	(16)
Global news and information networks	150	(13)
CNN - The `world's news leader'	156	(7)
Setting the gloval news agenda	163	(4)
Communication and cultural globalization	167	(33)
Globalization of Western culture?	167	(12)
Children's television - catching them young	169	(3)
MTV Music Television	172	(7)
Concerns for cultural diversity	179	(2)
Global English	181	(3)
Regionalization and localization in the media market	184	(16)
Zee TV and hybrid television	197	(3)
Contraflow in global media	200	(24)
Seeing the big world on a small screen	200	(3)
Global culture's discontents	203	(3)
Global counterflow of television	206	(9)
Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC)	208	(4)
Phoenix Chinese Channel	212	(3)
Media exports from the South to the North	215	(9)
TV Globo	215	(3)
The other Hollywood - the Indian film industry	218	(6)
International communication in the Internet age	224	(39)
The dawn of the Internet age	225	(6)
From a `free flow of information' to `free flow of commerce'	231	(11)
The Microsoft monopoly?	239	(3)
The Internet as a political tool	242	(5)
The global digital divide	247	(12)
Alternative communication	249	(10)
International communication - continuity and change	259	(4)
Glossary	263	(8)
Appendix I A chronology of international communication	271	(10)
Appendix II Useful websites	281	(6)
References	287	(30)
Author Index	317	(6)
Subject Index	323

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