Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-7425-3643-2 • Paperback • March 2005 • $71.00 • (£55.00)
978-0-7425-7672-8 • eBook • April 2005 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
Robert A. Hackett is professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University in Canada. Yuezhi Zhao is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 1 Media Globalization, Media Democratization: Challenges, Issues, and Paradoxes
Part 4 Part I: Media Globalization and Democratic Deficits: National and Regional Audits
Chapter 5 2 Civil Society as Contested Concept: Media and Political Transformation in Eastern and Central Europe
Chapter 6 3 Who Wants Democracy and Does It Deliver Food? Communication and Power in a Globally Integrated China
Chapter 7 4 Contested Futures: Indian Media at the Crossroads
Chapter 8 5 Changing Political Cultures and Media under Globalism in Latin America
Chapter 9 6 Media in 'Globalizing' Africa: What Prospects for Democratic Communication?
Part 10 Part II: Media and Democracy in Global Sites and Conflicts
Chapter 11 7 Globalization, Regionalization, and Democratization: The Interaction of Three Paradigms in the Field of Mass Communication
Chapter 12 8 Constructing Collective Identities and Democratic Media in a Globalizing World: Israel as a Test Case
Chapter 13 9 The Iraq Conflict and the Media: Embedded with War Rather than with Peace and Democracy
Chapter 14 10 Global Media Governance as a Potential Site of Civil Society Intervention
Part 15 Part III: Modalities of Democratization
Chapter 16 11 Beyond Wiggle Room: American Corporate Media's Democratic Deficit, Its Global Implications, and Prospects for Reform
Chapter 17 12 Globalization, Communication, Democratization: Toward Gender Equality
Chapter 18 13 Peace Journalism: A Global Dialog for Democracy and Democratic Media
Chapter 19 14 Finding a Frame: Towards a Transnational Advocacy Campaign to Democratize Communication
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Contributors
This book . . . stands to become a valuable contribution [to media studies]. It expands our understanding of a tremendously complex and important set of problems in the area of media, globalism, and political culture. Not only do the editors and contributors effectively frame the issues—and the interrelations among the issues—but their work will stimulate discussion across a wide range of readership, and they suggest several fruitful paths of policy development and media activism. . . . The broad cross-cutting issues are considered across the global mediascape of culturally and historically distinct regions and localities.
— Andrew Arno, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
The book offers not only a nuanced and complex presentation of democratic media formations but also, and most useful, a possible model: i.e., regimes that have devised a multiple-media system that includes state, commercial, public, and community media, ownership, and control offer the most balanced and democratized communication. Highly recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Among the great achievements of this volume is its ability to provide both breadth and depth in its treatment of the complex relationship between democratization processes and globalization.
— Asian Journal of Communication
This volume serves a dual purpose. On the one hand, it provides fresh scholarship on media democratization from a variety of national, regional, global, and gender perspectives. On the other hand, it raises the level of democratic consciousness for a general public that often feeds on its own biased national media systems.
— Majid Tehranian, from the foreword
—A substantial introductory chapter gives a landmark review of the state of the international communication field.
—Discusses·the "democratic deficits" of media in major regions (China, India, United States, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America).
—Explores the interaction among media, politics, and culture in sites of global contestation (Israel, Iraq, "transition" societies, global policy institutions).
—Examines emerging civil society movements to democratize media globally.