Global Communications » (New Edition)

This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows interesting developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market. Other cases spotlight China, Singapore, Venezuela, Palestine, Arab nations, Ghana, Canada, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Theoretically driven and empirically grounded, Global Communications avoids alarmist or celebratory approaches.

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy of Global Communications   Paula Chakravartty   Yuezhi Zhao     1
The State and Communication Politics in Multiple Modernities
Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in China   Yuezhi Zhao     23
Media, State, and Responses to Globalization in Post-Communist Russia   Olessia Koltsova     51
Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in Singapore   Soek-Fang Sim     75
Regulating the Consciousness Industry in the European Union: Legitimacy, Identity, and the Changing State   Katharine Sarikakis     95
Media, Democracy, and the State in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution"   Robert Duffy   Robert Everton     113
Embedded Markets and Cultural Transformations
Cultures of Empire: Transnational Media Flows and Cultural (Dis)Connections in East Asia   Koichi Iwabuchi     143
Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian Adinkra   Boatema Boateng     163
Critical Transculturalism and Arab Reality Television: A Preliminary Theoretical Exploration   Marwan Kraidy     189
Rethinking the U.S. Spanish-Language Media Market in an Era of Deregulation   MariCastaneda     201
Civil Society and Multiple Publics
Gender and Empire: Veilomentaries and the War on Terror   Sunera Thobani     219
Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa   Arthur-Martins Aginam     243
Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes ... Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State   Helga Tawil Souri     263
Labor In or As Civil Society? Workers and Subaltern Publics in India's Information Society   Paula Chakravartty     285
References     309
Index     343
About the Contributors     357