International Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Foreign Correspondence

   Edited by John Hamilton, Regina G. Lawrence

   Series: Journalism Studies

   Despite the importance of foreign news, its history, transformation and indeed its future have not been much studied. The scholarly community often calls attention to journalism’s shortcomings covering the world, yet the topic has not been systematically examined across countries or over time. The...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Advertising, the Media and Globalization

   A World in Motion

   By John Sinclair

   This book offers a critical, empirically-grounded and contemporary account of how advertisers and agencies are dealing with a volatile mediascape throughout the world, taking a region-by-region approach. It provides a clear, systematic, and synoptic analysis of the dynamic relationship between...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution

   Social changes and state responses

   Edited by Xiaoling Zhang, Yongnian Zheng

   Series: China Policy Series

   In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 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. Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies

   Brazil, Russia, India and China

   By Lynne Ciochetto

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Global Television Formats

   Understanding Television Across Borders

   Edited by Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf

   For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. How Media Inform Democracy

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Toril Aalberg, James Curran

   Series: Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research

   In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Taking as their starting point the idea that citizens need to be briefed adequately with a full and intelligent...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
9. Branding Post-Communist Nations

   Marketizing National Identities in the “New” Europe

   Edited by Nadia Kaneva

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
10. 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