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Understanding Global Media
01 Jan 2007-
TL;DR: Understanding Global Media offers a timely and comprehensive overview of global media production and circulation as mentioned in this paper, including media industries, production, content, audiences and policies on an international scale, and is an essential guide to understanding media in a global era.
Abstract: Understanding Global Media offers a timely and comprehensive overview of global media production and circulation. Grounded in extensive case study material in order to illustrate key debates, the book analyzes media industries, production, content, audiences and policies on an international scale. Written by a leading author, it is both a thorough synthesis of existing academic work and an ambitious statement of new research directions. Drawing insight from a range of perspectives, including politics, political economy, media and cultural studies, and economic and cultural geography, this book is an essential guide to understanding media in a global era.
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31 Aug 2009TL;DR: This article developed a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and used it to identify the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity, and analyzed empirical evidence from both the societal level and the individual level.
Abstract: Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this process. A series of firewalls protect national cultures. This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from both the societal level and the individual level, examining the outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies. The study draws on evidence from the World Values Survey, covering 90 societies in all major regions worldwide from 1981 to 2007. The conclusion considers the implications of their findings for cultural policies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a macro-level portrait of the networked forms of organization, production, and distribution in which the world's largest multi-national media organizations operate, including Time Warner, Disney, News Corp, Bertelsmann, CBS, NBC, and Viacom.
Abstract: Today, the media empires of Time Warner, Disney, News Corp., Bertelsmann, CBS, NBC, and Viacom span large portions of the globe and exert considerable economic, political, and cultural power. This article presents a macro-level portrait of the networked forms of organization, production, and distribution in which the world's largest multi-national media organizations operate. First, it provides a detailed accounting of the internal structures of and the partnerships between these transnational media conglomerates. Second, it examines the production and distribution arrangements and the financial partnerships between conglomerates and regional and local media organizations. Third, it examines the role of open-ended network connections (i.e., links to parallel business, political and creative networks) in shaping this global network of media organizations.
130 citations
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15 Oct 2012
TL;DR: Ogad as mentioned in this paper explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing "mediated intimacy" and focusing on the self.
Abstract: This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.
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Cites background from "Understanding Global Media"
...Considerable discussion in this field has focused on how, and with what consequences, media and communication technologies have extended the quantity and reach of messages, the velocity of their transmission, and their networked character across the globe, particularly under the influence of the fundamental globalizing force of capitalism (e.g., Castells, 2001, 2009; Flew, 2007; Herman and McChesney, 2001; Schiller, 1999; Thompson, 1995)....
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...…and reach of messages, the velocity of their transmission, and their networked character across the globe, particularly under the influence of the fundamental globalizing force of capitalism (e.g., Castells, 2001, 2009; Flew, 2007; Herman and McChesney, 2001; Schiller, 1999; Thompson, 1995)....
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TL;DR: This article provided a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: "of-invoked but ill-defined" and "oft-invocable but illdefined".
Abstract: This article takes as its starting point the observation that neoliberalism is a concept that is ‘oft-invoked but ill-defined’. It provides a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: ...
126 citations
28 Nov 2012
TL;DR: This paper provided a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: (1) an all-purpose denunciatory category; (2) ''the way things are''; (3) an institutional framework characterizing particular forms of national capitalism, most notably the Anglo-American ones; (4) a dominant ideology of global capitalism; (5) a form of governmentality and hegemony; and (6) a variant within the broad framework of liberalism as both theory and policy discourse.
Abstract: This article takes as its starting point the observation that neoliberalism is a concept that is ‘oft-invoked but ill-defined’. It provides a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to include: (1) an all-purpose denunciatory category; (2) ‘the way things are’; (3) an institutional framework characterizing particular forms of national capitalism, most notably the Anglo-American ones; (4) a dominant ideology of global capitalism; (5) a form of governmentality and hegemony; and (6) a variant within the broad framework of liberalism as both theory and policy discourse. It is argued that this sprawling set of definitions are not mutually compatible, and that uses of the term need to be dramatically narrowed from its current association with anything and everything that a particular author may find objectionable. In particular, it is argued that the uses of the term by Michel Foucault in his 1978–9 lectures, found in The Birth of Biopolitics, are not particularly compatible with its more recent status as a variant of dominant ideology or hegemony theories. It instead proposes understanding neoliberalism in terms of historical institutionalism, with Foucault’s account of historical change complementing MaxWeber’s work identifying the distinctive economic sociology of national capitalisms.
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