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Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World book cover

1st Edition

Cultural Chaos Journalism and Power in a Globalised World

By Brian McNair Copyright 2006
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture. In this new text, Brian McNair examines the processes of cultural, geographic and political dissolution in the post-Cold War era... Read more

1. Cultural Chaos and the Globalisation of Journalism  Part One: Critiquing Critical Theory  2. Materialism and the Media  3. From Control to Chaos  Part Two: The Political Economy of Chaos  4. The Politics of Chaos: Democracy, Media and the Decline of Deference  5. Cultural Chaos and the End of Ideology  6. Cultural Capitalism and the Commodification of Dissent  Part Three: The Infrastructure of Chaos  7. Mapping the Global Public Sphere, I: Transnational Satellite News  8. Mapping the Global Public Sphere, II: Online Journalism and the Blogosphere  9. From Blogosphere to Public Sphere?  Part Four: The Consequences of Cultural Chaos  10. Global News Culture and Authoritarianism  11. Democracy and Hyper-Democracy  12. Controlling Chaos  13. Conclusion and Postscript: Cultural Chaos and the Critical Project

Biography

Brian McNair is Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of News and Journalism in the UK, Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Union and Images of the Enemy.

'The range of issues he examines is impressive.' – International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism
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