Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism
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
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Media Power and Democratization in Brazil
TV Globo and the Dilemmas of Political Accountability
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
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Music, Social Media and Global Mobility
MySpace, Facebook, YouTube
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
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Global Media Ecologies
Networked Production in Film and Television
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
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Audience Studies
A Japanese Perspective
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 August 4th 2009 by Routledge
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Iranian Media
The Paradox of Modernity
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 August 4th 2009 by Routledge
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Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks
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 July 26th 2009 by Routledge
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Internationalizing Internet Studies
Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
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 November 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia
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 June 18th 2008 by Routledge
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The Global News Challenge
Market Strategies of International Broadcasting Organizations in Developing Countries
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 April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape
The South is Talking Back
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
This pioneering analysis examines the rise of Al Jazeera English: the early editorial agenda, production strategies and news output of the first global news channel headquartered in the Middle East. The growth of transnational satellite television has transformed the global media landscape into a...
To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Online Journalism in Africa
Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a...
To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey
Structures, Spaces, Voices
Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
Discourse (both popular and academic) surrounding Turkey has leaned toward the reductionist and the de-contextualized, framing Turkish media, culture and politics in polarized terms such as East vs. West, Modern vs. Traditional or Muslim vs. Christian. The objective of this new volume is to...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge