2nd Edition

Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age

By Dal Yong Jin Copyright 2026
194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

An empirically rich and student-friendly book in which global media expert Dal Yong Jin discusses the nexus of globalization, digital media, and popular culture and provides an essential introduction to the shifting media ecology of the early 21st century. Offering an in-depth look at globalization processes as they relate to the global media, this second edition maps out the increasing role of... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1 - Globalization in the Age of Digital Platforms

Chapter 2 - Media History in the Age of Globalization

Chapter 3 - Approaches to Globalization in the Age of Digital Platforms

Chapter 4 - From Cultural Imperialism to Platform Imperialism

Chapter 5 - The Nation-State: Dead or Alive

Chapter 6 - The Business of Global Media Industries

Chapter 7 - Infrastructures in the Era of Globalization

Chapter 8 - Globalization and Broadcasting

Chapter 9 - The Cultural Politics of Film

Chapter 10 - The Culture of Global Music

References

Index

Biography

Dal Yong Jin is a Distinguished Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published numerous books, including Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture (2015), New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media (2016), Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production (2021), and Understanding the Korean Wave (2023). He has also published a textbook titled Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age (2017), with Micky Lee. He is the founding editor of the Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia series.