Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

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1. The Global News Challenge

   Market Strategies of International Broadcasting Organizations in Developing Countries

   By Anne Geniets

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   The Global News Challenge tackles one of the timeliest topics in mass communication today—the challenges facing international broadcasters with universal branding strategies in developing countries. In these heavily government-controlled media environments with a scarcity of reliable information,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Iranian Media

   The Paradox of Modernity

   By Gholam Khiabany

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate ‘Sharia with electricity’ and modernity with what it considers as ‘Islam’. While sympathetic to private capital, through quasi anti-capitalist politics, the state began to restrict market-relations, confiscate major assets of sections of...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

   Edited by Timothy Havens, Anikó Imre, Katalin Lustyik

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Media Power and Democratization in Brazil

   TV Globo and the Dilemmas of Political Accountability

   By Mauro Porto

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   In this book, Porto analyzes the role of TV Globo in the democratization of Brazil. TV Globo, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, has a dominant position in Brazil's communications landscape. It also exports telenovelas to more than 130 countries and has established joint ventures with...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Music, Social Media and Global Mobility

   MySpace, Facebook, YouTube

   By Ole Mjos

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This book is about the relationship between media, communication and globalization, explored through the unique empirical study of electronic music practitioners’ use of the global social media: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. To understand the significance of the emerging nexus between...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks

   By Ole J. Mjos

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world’s largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Audience Studies

   A Japanese Perspective

   By Toshie Takahashi

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity in an accessible and lively fashion. Based on an ethnography of Japanese engagement with media and ICT in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Takahashi offers a...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Global Media Ecologies

   Networked Production in Film and Television

   By Doris Baltruschat

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   In this study, Baltruschat calls attention to dramatic changes in worldwide media production. Her work provides new insights into industry re-organization, digital media, and audience interactivity as pivotal relationships are redrawn along the entire value chain of production, distribution, and...

   Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Internationalizing Internet Studies

   Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

   Edited by Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural,...

   Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
10. Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia

    Edited by Youna Kim

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    This book explores people’s everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge