New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

by Semati, Mehdi; Alhassan, Amin; Brush, Heidi Marie; Debrix, François; H. Downing, John D.; Erni, John Nguyet; Evans, Michael Robert; Hasian, Marouf, Jr.; Jones, Clifford A.; Kraidy, Marwan M.; Nerone, John; Rockwell, Rick; Sayyid, S; Sosale, Sujatha; Wark,

• ISBN13: 9780742530188
• ISBN10: 0742530183
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

New Frontiers in International Communication Theory offers a wide-ranging assessment of the present state of the field of international communication and charts new directions for theory and research. It brings together renowned and emerging scholars who challenge the field to move beyond the limits of existing formulations, approaches, and trajectories, providing an alternative and a supplement to traditional approaches in analysis and study. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: New Frontiers in International Communication	1	(16)
Mehdi Semati
Part I: Rethinking Problematics in International Communication	17	(72)
Mehdi Semati
1 Four Theories of the Press in Hindsight: Reflections on a Popular Model	21	(12)
John Nerone
2 Toward a Critical Genealogy of Communication, Development, and Social Change	33	(22)
Sujatha Sosale
3 Communication and the Postcolonial Nation-State: A New Political Economic Research Agenda	55	(16)
Amin Alhassan
4 Global AIDS, IT, and Critical Humanism: Reframing International Health Communication	71	(22)
John Nguyet Erni
Part II: The Global Vectors of Communication	89	(64)
Mehdi Semati
5 The Terror of the Image: International Relations and the Global Image Circuitry	93	(24)
Francois Debrix
6 The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual	117	(20)
McKenzie Wark
7 Empire, War, and Antiwar Media	137	(20)
John D.H. Downing
Part III: Models and Tools for Inquiry in International Communication	153	(74)
Mehdi Semati
8 Transfrontier Media, Law, and Cultural Policy in the European Union	157	(22)
Clifford A. Jones
9 Democratization and the Media: Reflections on the Central American Experience	179	(22)
Rick Rockwell
10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Ethnographic Research in International Communication Studies	201	(30)
Michael Robert Evans
Part IV: On the Political-Theoretical Horizons of International Communication	227	(66)
Mehdi Semati
11 Cells, Nets, and the Security State: Transnational Political Organizations and the Governing of the Internet	231	(16)
Heidi Marie Brush
12 From Culture to Hybridity in International Communication	247	(16)
Marwan M. Kraidy
13 Transnational Genome Debates and the Return of Eugenics	263	(16)
Marouf Hasian Jr.
14 Islamism and the Politics of Eurocentrism	279	(14)
S. Sayyid
Index	293	(10)
About the Editor and Contributors	303