International Communication: A Reader

by Thussu; Daya Kishan

• ISBN13: 9780415444552
• ISBN10: 0415444551
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This comprehensiveReaderbrings together seminal texts in media and communication from both traditional as well as more recent scholarship. Readings are drawn from an international range of scholars and organized to reflect the growing internationalization of the field, with clearly defined sections covering key aspects of global communication. In addition to the core academic readings, key policy documents are also included to demonstrate the development of the political, economic and technological infrastructure that underpins the global system of media and communication.

Table of Contents

Infrastructure for International Communication

Satellites and global communication

The global network society

Impact of WTO on global communication

Global media policy

Theoretical terrains

Media and modernization

Communication and post-colonialism

Development communication

Communication and digital capitalism

Global media systems

Media imperialism

Homogenizing media cultures?

The global media system

Contra-flow in global media

Anglo-American Media in decline?

Dominant and Alternative Discoureses

Cultural imperialism

Communication and cultural proximity

The Islamic Internet

Alternative media

Communication and Power

Global communication as ideology

Communication as propaganda

Soft Power

Media and sovereignty

Cultures of Global Communication

Global media consumption

Disjunctures of global culture

Cultures of diasporic media

Decentred globalization

Hybridity and globalization

Global creative convergence

Key Documents and Reports

Excerpt from: UNESCO The new world information and communication order. Resolutions 4/19 in Records of the General Conference Twenty-First Session, Belgrade, 23 September to 28 October, Paris: United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organisation, 1980

Excerpt from: MacBride Report Many voices, one world: communication and society today and tomorrow. International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, Paris: UNESCO, 1980

Excerpt from: Annex on Telecommunications of General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), 1995

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Phonograms and Performances Treaty (WPPT), 1996

WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) 1996

Excerpt from: UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity. Adopted by the 31st Session of UNESCO's General Conference Paris, 2 November 2001

Google software principles, 2006

Excerpt from: UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions Paris, 20 October 2005

The 33rd Session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Paris 3-21 October 2005

Excerpt from: Second Phase of the WSIS (16-18 November 2005, Tunis) Tunis Agenda for the Information Society WSIS-05/TUNIS/DOC/6

Excerpt from: Second Phase of the WSIS (16-18 November 2005, Tunis) Tunis Commitment WSIS-05/TUNIS/DOC/7

Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council Amending Council Directive 2007/65/EC which amends the Television

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