Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 312
Trim: 6⅛ x 9¼
978-0-7425-0060-0 • Hardback • October 2001 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
978-0-7425-0061-7 • Paperback • October 2001 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Yahya R. Kamalipour is professor of mass and international communication at Purdue University Calumet. Kuldip R. Rampal is professor of mass communication at Central Missouri State University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Paradox of Media Effects
Chapter 3 Social Implications of Media Globalization
Chapter 4 A Global Perspective on Internet Sex: Nations' Societal Values as Predictors of Sexual Web Pages
Chapter 5 North America's Cult of Sex and Violence
Chapter 6 Drugs in Television, Movies, and Music Videos
Chapter 7 The Mass Media and Adolescents' Health in the United States
Chapter 8 Covering His Not-so-Private Parts: The Multinational, Multicultural Struggle to Regulate the Broadcasts of "Shock Jock" Howard Stern
Chapter 9 Cultural Bane or Sociological Boon? The Impact of Satellite Television on Urban Youth in India
Chapter 10 Pornography, Perceptions of Sex, and Sexual Callousness: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Chapter 11 A Lethal Combination: Sex and Violence in Korean Television
Chapter 12 Women, Media, and Violence in the New South Africa: Disciplining the Mind (the Body Is Irrelevant)
Chapter 13 Media, Violence, Drugs, and Sex in Turkey
Chapter 14 Media, Sex, Violence, and Drugs: Egypt's Experience
Chapter 15 Sex, Violence, and Terrorism in Hollywood's International Political Imagery
Chapter 16 Between Globalization and Localization: Television, Tradition, and Modernity
Chapter 17 Epilogue
Media, Sex, Violence, and Drugs in the Global Village shows the use of these powerful themes in changing the habits of audiences in many different contexts. These new habits reflect one of the driving forces of media—globalization—particularly on television and the Internet. The book provides a useful set of case studies on countries from Turkey to Korea and South Africa to Canada, along with some cross-national studies. Students learn not only about a variety of national mediascapes but also a variety of methodological approaches—from the quantitative to the qualitative, from media effects to political economy. . . . Any student wishing to understand the role of programming (and racy or 'taboo' programming in particular) in transforming audience habits and values will find this book useful.
— Waddick Doyle, American University of Paris
This is a unique and welcome addition to debates about the global dominance of American culture in the twenty-first century. Media, Sex, Violence, and Drugs in the Global Village brings together insights from American media and cultural critics and observations on the global influence of American culture from commentators living outside the United States. An important contribution to the analysis of globalization, it will be essential reading for students and academics in communication, media, and cultural studies.
— Cynthia Carter, Cardiff University
This book is both original and significant in that it attempts to grab a worldview of media problems that have hitherto been most extensively studied in the United States alone.
— Richard Maxwell, Queens College?CUNY