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Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University.
Tanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Communication and Digital Media Studies program, and the Vice-President of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA).
Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change, an Introduction
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Tanner Mirrlees
Part 1 – Contextualizing and Conceptualizing Empire and Media imperialism
Chapter 1 - Media and Cultural Imperialism: Genealogy of an Idea
Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Chapter 2 - Historicizing and Theorizing Media and Cultural Imperialism
Kaarle Nordenstreng, Marko Ampuja & Juha Koivisto
Chapter 3 – The US Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A Reconceptualization and 20th Century Retrospective
Tanner Mirrlees
Part 2 –The News, War and Propaganda
Chapter 4 - Western News Media, Propaganda and Pretexts for Neoliberal War
Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Chapter 5 – “RussiaGate”: The Construction of the Enemy
Gerald Sussman
Chapter 6 – The Great Game for EurAsia and the Skripal Affair
Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Chapter 7 - Propaganda, Manipulation and the Exercise of Imperial Power: From Media Imperialism to Informational Imperialism
Piers Robinson
Part 3 – Hollywood, War and Militainment
Chapter 8 - Socialism by Stealth? Governmental Subvention and Hollywood
Toby Miller
Chapter 9 - The US Embassy-Hollywood Complex: The Sony Pictures Hack and 21st century media Imperialism
Paul Moody
Chapter 10 – Dispatches from the Militainment Empire
Roger Stahl
Chapter 11 - Global Executioner: Legitimizing Drone Warfare through Hollywood Movies
Erin Steuter and Geoff Martin
Part 4 –The Internet, Social Media and Platform Imperialism
Chapter 12 – Guarding Public Values in a Connective World: Challenges for Europe.
José van Dijck
Chapter 13 - Facebook’s Platform Imperialism: The Economics and Geopolitics of Social Media
Dal Yong Jin
Chapter 14 - New Global Music Distribution System, Same Old Linguistic Hegemony? Analyzing English on Spotify
Christof Demont-Heinrich
Chapter 15 – “Weaponizing” the Internet and World Wide Web, for Empire: Platforming Capitalism, Data-Veillance, Public Diplomacy and Cyber-Warfare
Tanner Mirrlees
Part 5 – Development Communication, Global Divides and Cultural Imperialism
Chapter 16 - Cultural Autonomy in the 1970s and Beyond: Toward Cultural Justice
Cees Hamelink
Chapter 17 - Cultural Imperialism and Development Communication for Social Change
Mohan Dutta
Chapter 18 - Mapping Power in Women’s Empowerment Projects in Global Development
Karin Gwinn Wilkins
Part 6 - Rising Media Empires: The Case of China
Chapter 19 – China: An Emerging Cultural Imperialist
Colin Sparks
Chapter 20 – The Empire’s New Clothes: Political Priorities and Corporate Ambitions in China’s Drive for Global Ascendency
Graham Murdoch
Chapter 21 – Not (yet) The Chinese Century: The Endurance of the US Empire and its Cultural Industries
Tanner Mirrlees
Contributor Bios
Here readers can encounter the variety and vigor of media/cultural imperialism approaches to the ever-evolving global mediascape. In a single reference work, seasoned researchers from across the planet sharply challenge enduring myopias of much conventional media research. A vital contribution to debate and analysis.
— John D.H. Downing, Director Emeritus, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale