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This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows interesting developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market. Other cases spotlight China, Singapore, Venezuela, Palestine, Arab nations, Ghana, Canada, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Theoretically driven and empirically grounded, Global Communications avoids alarmist or celebratory approaches.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: The State and Communication Politics in Multiple Modernities
Chapter 1: Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in China
Chapter 2: Media, State, and Responses to Globalization: The Case of Post-Communist Russia
Chapter 3: Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in Singapore
Chapter 4: Governance and Legitimacy: The Case of the European Union
Chapter 5: Media, Democracy, and the State in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution"
Part II: Embedded Markets and Cultural Transformations
Chapter 6: Cultures of Empire: Transnational Media Flows and Cultural (Dis)Connections in East Asia
Chapter 7: Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian Adinkra
Chapter 8: A Transcultural Political Economy of the Arab Television Industry
Chapter 9: Rethinking the Spanish-language Media Market in the U.S.
Part III: Civil Society and Multiple Publics
Chapter 10: Gender and Empire: Performing Femininities in the War on Terrorism
Chapter 11: Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 12: Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes . . . Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State
Chapter 13: Labor in or as Civil Society? Workers and Subaltern Publics in India's Information Economy
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About the author
Paula Chakravartty is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of several articles on the political economy and culture of high-tech development in India, as well as on migration, labor, and nationalism in India and the U.S. She is the coauthor of Globalization and Media Policy and her current research focuses on the politics of info-development and civil society in Brazil and India.
Yuezhi Zhao is professor of communication and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Media, Market, Democracy in China and Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict, coauthor of Sustaining Democracy? and coeditor of Democratizing Global Media.
Summary
Takes a fresh approach towards understanding the uneven flows of global communications, and focuses on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this work follows developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market.
