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Communication and Power in the Global Era: Orders and Borders book cover

1st Edition

Communication and Power in the Global Era Orders and Borders

Edited By Marwan M. Kraidy Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for theory and research. The book addresses such questions as: How are national and cultural identities re-fashioned and expressed in the global era? How can we best understand the emergence of... Read more

Table of contents

  1. Introduction: Orders and Borders in Global Communication, Marwan M. Kraidy　

　

1 Ordering Borders: The Transnational Management of Subjectivity　　　 　　　　　　　

2. Nation-States and Transnational Attachments, Le Han

3. Nativist Liberalism and the Disciplining of Spanish Language Media, Hector Amaya　　　　　　

4. Transnational Nomads: Articulations of Subjectivity Across Diasporic Mediascapes, Myria Georgiou　

2 Branding Nations: Re-imagining Communities in Neo-Liberal States

5. Branding: Between National Boundaries and Capital Flows, Andrew Crocco

6. Media, Modernity and Inequality: Aam Admi in India Inc, Paula Chakravartty

7. Old Nations, New Brands: Marketing Intimacy in the New Europe, Aniko Imre

8. Culture and National Border Administration in 21st Century Japan, Koichi Iwabuchi

　

3 Being Modern: Situating the Grand Narrative

9. Media, Modernity and Postmodernity, Piotr Szpunar

10. The Centrality of Televisions of the Center in Today’s Globalized World, Paddy Scannell

11. Towards a Vertical Hermeneutics of the Modern: On Modernness, Tarik Sabry

4 Destabilizing Orders: Resistance and Social Transformation

12. Resistance: From Old to New Media, Sara Mourad

13. Resuscitating ‘Resistance’ in the Age of Global Climate Change: Notes on Media, Culture and Environmental Discourse in Latin America, Patrick Murphy

14. Power and Transgression in the Global Media Age: The Strange Case of Twitter in China, Guobin Yang　

Biography

Marwan M. Kraidy is Professor of Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a grantee of the United States Institute of Peace.

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