Bücher der Reihe Internationalizing Media Studies

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first account of location technologies internationally (in an expanded sense), and brings together the best available international scholarship on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.

Adopting a critical approach in analyses of the BRICS' communication strategies and their effectiveness, this book contextualizes and evaluates the role of the BRICS nations in framing a new global communication order.

Adopting a critical approach in analyses of the BRICS' communication strategies and their effectiveness, this book contextualizes and evaluates the role of the BRICS nations in framing a new global communication order.

The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) have profoundly affected the study of global media. This collection of essays aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit.

Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of democracy and development . Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the African continent, essays employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to ask critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture to the detriment of local traditions. A wide variety of media formats and platforms are discussed, ranging from radio and television to the Internet, mobile phones, street posters, film and music. As part of the Routledge series Internationalizing Media Studies, the book responds to the important challenge of broadening perspectives on media studies by bringing together a range of expert analyses of media in the African continent that will be of interest to students and scholars of media in Africa and further afield.

Mapping BRICS Media is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the emerging media landscape in the world¿s most dynamic markets. This pioneering collection focuses on one of the key topics in contemporary international relations ¿ the emergence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). The volume brings together distinguished scholars from the BRICS nations to assess the effects of the exponential growth in media in some of the world¿s fastest growing major economies and examine how the emergence will impact on global media and communication. Transnational in scope and comparative in approach, the book focuses on significant and yet hitherto largely ignored developments in the globalization of media. By interrogating the relationship between the inter-BRICS media and media practices and perceptions, this volume provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the complex debates about the impact of the `rise of the rest¿ on the media globe.

This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures and argues for the Korean Wave¿s double capacity in the creation of new and complex spaces of identity that are both enabling and disabling cultural diversity in a digital cosmopolitan world.

This collection brings together distinguished scholars from China and those with deep interest and knowledge of the country, to examine how the emergence of Chinese media will impact on global media and communication. Chapters contextualize the role of the Chinese media in a globalized world, evaluate the media landscape and focus on media practices, drawing on empirical material specifically gathered for this volume. By interrogating the relationship between the Chinese and Western media practices and perceptions, this volume provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the complex debates about the impact of China on the media globe.

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first account of location technologies internationally (in an expanded sense), and brings together the best available international scholarship on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.

At this fascinating historical moment, this timely collection explores the new meaning of the Korean Wave and the process of media production, representation, distribution and consumption in a global context as a distinctive and complex form of soft power.