Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations
Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations

Author: Natascha Gentz

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 079148209X

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Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations provides a multidirectional approach for understanding the role of media in constructing cultural identities in a newly globalized media environment. The contributors cover a wide range of topics from different geopolitical areas, historical periods, and media genres. Case studies examined include the shift from print to Internet, local representations of modern world cinema and glo/cal television, narrative strategies in transnational literature, and cultural economics of the mediation of world music in India, China, Algeria, Israel, Europe, and the United States. This case study approach allows for deeper insights into the complexity of each cultural subsystem as part of the whole media culture system. This book exemplifies a transcultural and transdisciplinary dialogue that maps out new—relocalized—territories and borders for mediated cultural identities and also reveals the complexity and connectedness of all of these discourses.

Media Representation and the Global Imagination
Media Representation and the Global Imagination

Author: Shani Orgad

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0745680852

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This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.

The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory
The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory

Author: Robert S. Fortner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-03-10

Total Pages: 1002

ISBN-13: 1118770005

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The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that focus on all aspects of current and classic theories and practices relating to media and mass communication. Focuses on all aspects of current and classic theories and practices relating to media and mass communication Includes essays from a variety of global contexts, from Asia and the Middle East to the Americas Gives niche theories new life in several essays that use them to illuminate their application in specific contexts Features coverage of a wide variety of theoretical perspectives Pays close attention to the use of theory in understanding new communication contexts, such as social media 2 Volumes

Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities
Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities

Author: Chris Barker

Publisher: Open University Press

Published: 1999-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Attention is given to television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. The representation of sex, gender, race and nation on television is analysed.

Mapping World Literature
Mapping World Literature

Author: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-08-20

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1847061230

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Thomsen develops the concept of constellations of books based on particular formal and thematic traits and shows how this works in relation to literature written by migrant writers and literature on genocides, wars and catastrophes.

Crisis’ Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives
Crisis’ Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9004439552

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A sociological research on the current “narrations” of the crisis reflected by media and the relation between political discourses and popular myths, consists a revealing study of the dominant social representations worldwide. The real inequalities are counterbalanced by cultural industries’ “fairytales”.

Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict
Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict

Author: J. Daccache

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-05

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 113729048X

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Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet.

New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders
New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

Author: Bronwyn Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1136635637

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How do students’ online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influenced by popular culture create both opportunities and tensions for secondary and university students. The authors examine issues of theory, identity, and pedagogy as they address participatory popular culture sites such as fan forums, video, blogs, social networking sites, anime, memes, and comics and graphic novels. Uniquely bringing together scholarship about online literacy practices and the growing body of work on participatory popular culture, New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture across Borders makes distinctive contributions to an emerging field of study, pushing forward scholarship about literacy and identity in cross-cultural situations and advancing important conversations about issues of global flows and local responses to popular culture.

Media and Cultural Regulation
Media and Cultural Regulation

Author: Kenneth Thompson

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1997-09-29

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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"The book covers a range of key debates about the politics and regulation of culture in general, and of the media as a key site of contemporary cultural practice. A range of theoretical issues are explored in questions of the public sphere and the politics of leisure. Three key arenas of contested regulation, posing very different issues of the formation and regulation of culture and media are discussed: sexuality, globalization and multiculturalism. Sexuality poses issues of control of representations, and of pornography and censorship. Globalization raises questions of national identity and cultural imperialism. Multiculturalism challenges existing models of cultural identity and citizenship. Through these three central cases, major contests around the public defining of culture, identity and difference are clarified."--Book jacket.