Transnational Television Worldwide Towards a New Media Order

by Chalaby, Jean K.

• ISBN13: 9781850435488
• ISBN10: 1850435480
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels.It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe.Revealing great richness and diversity across seven key broadcasting regions, North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South and East Asia, the book examines the place of these channels in the process of globalization, their impact on the nation-state, and many more elements central to the study of international media and communications.

Author Biography

Jean K. Chalaby is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at City University, London.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Towards an Understanding of Media Transnationalism	1	(13)
Jean K. Chalaby
Whoever Looks Always Finds: Transnational Viewing and Knowledge-Experience	14	(29)
Kevin Robins
Asu Aksoy
The Quiet Invention of a New Medium: Twenty Years of Transnational Television in Europe	43	(23)
Jean K. Chalaby
Maverick or Model? Al-Jazeera's Impact on Arab Satellite Television	66	(30)
Naomi Sakr
Transnational Television in Sub-Saharan Africa	96	(32)
Graham Mytton
Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
Andre-Jean Tudesq
The Transnational and the National: Changing Patterns of Cultural Influence in the South Asian TV Market	128	(28)
David Page
William Crawley
The Transnationalization of Television: The Indian Experience	156	(17)
Daya Kishan Thussu
Trans-border Broadcasters and TV Regionalization in Greater China: Processes and Strategies	173	(23)
Joseph Man Chan
International Television Channels in the Latin American Audiovisual Space	196	(20)
John Sinclair
Adapting US Transnational Television Channels to a Complex World: From Cultural Imperialism to Localization to Hybridization	216	(38)
Joseph D. Straubhaar
Luiz G. Duarte
Notes on Contributors	254	(4)
Index of TV Channels and Satellite Platforms	258	(3)
General Index	261