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Authors: Robert A. Hackett
ISBN-13: 9780742536432, ISBN-10: 0742536432
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Robert A. Hackett

Book Synopsis

Democratizing Global Media explores the complex relationship between globalizing media and the spread of democracy around the world. An international, interdisciplinary group of journalists and scholars discusses key_and often contentious_issues such as the power of media, the benefits of media globalization, and the political role of media. More than a critique, Democratizing Global Media offers positive alternatives, from peace journalism to popular movements toward democratizing media and public communication.

Table of Contents

Foreword
1Media globalization, media democratization : challenges, issues, and paradoxes1
2Civil society as contested concept : media and political transformation in eastern and central Europe37
3Who wants democracy and does it deliver food? : communication and power in a globally integrated China57
4Contested futures : Indian media at the crossroads81
5Changing political cultures and media under globalism in Latin America101
6Media in "globalizing" Africa : what prospect for democratic communication?121
7Globalization, regionalization, and democratization : the interaction of three paradigms in the field of mass communication145
8Constructing collective identities and democratic media in a globalizing world : Israel as a test case165
9The Iraq conflict and the media : embedded with war rather than with peace and democracy185
10Global media governance as a potential site of civil society intervention205
11Beyond wiggle room : American corporate media's democratic deficit, its global implications, and prospects for reform225
12Globalization, communication, democratization : toward gender equality245
13Peace journalism : a global dialog for democracy and democratic media269
14Finding a frame : toward a transnational advocacy campaign to democratize communication289

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