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Informationen zum Autor Nancy Morris is assistant professor of broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media at Temple University. Silvio Waisbord is assistant professor of journalism and mass media at Rutgers University. Klappentext Media and Globalization shows why the state matters to media and telecommunications industries in a globalizing world: governments control and regulate these industries in important ways and states remain central arenas for policymaking and international agreements. Using case studies drawn from around the world, this book sheds light on the extent of state power in the face of transnational pressures and explores policy, economics, and culture as they factor into media globalization. Zusammenfassung This study examines the converging culture! telecommunications and new media industries in North America. With a broadly political-economic perspective! this work the goes on to provide an account of changes in the aftermath of trade agreements! and sets these changes in a global context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Media Globalization and State Power Part 2 Part I: States and Internet Regulation Chapter 3 Exporting the First Amendment to Cyberspace: The Internet and State Sovereignty Chapter 4 Where the National Meets the Global: Australia's Internet Censorship Policies Part 5 Part II: States and Communications Reform in Societies in Transition Chapter 6 "Negotiated Liberalization": The Politics of Communication Sector Reform in South Africa Chapter 7 State Transformation and India's Telecommunications Reform Chapter 8 The IMF, Globalization, and Changes in the Media-Power Structure in South Korea Part 9 Part III: States, Media, and Regional Cultures Chapter 10 Tensions in the Construction of European Media Policies Chapter 11 The Unsovereign Century: Canada's Media Industries and Cultural Politics Chapter 12 Brazil: The Role of the State in World Television Chapter 13 Epilogue...
