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Informationen zum Autor John Sinclair (1933-2007) was President of the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy and held the title Professor Emeritus of Modern English Language, University of Birmingham, UK Graeme Turner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is one of the founding figures of media and cultural studies in Australia, and a leading figure internationally. He was one of the earliest to undertake academic research on popular music in Australia, producing articles, chapters, and a co-edited book over the 1980s and 1990s, before turning his attention to television and new media in the 2000s. He has published over 25 books including Understanding Celebrity (2013) and National Fictions: Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative (2020). Klappentext What is happening today in the world of world television? With intense commercialization and more open national markets, along with technological convergence and greater concentration of ownership, the international TV landscape is changing at a bewildering pace and in a host of different ways. Contemporary World Television presents a unique overview of the global issues raised by these transformations in television. It looks at how they have affected the public interest and society across the globe and how the role of television as a nation-builder is experiencing erosion and evolution. The book's host of international expert contributors also examine TV's handling of news, and sexual content and its role in military conflicts. As well, they provide current assessments of how the global trends have diversely affected many different countries, regions, or language communities outside the Anglophone mainstream. Fully illustrated, the book also uses case studies and selected reading guides and thus provides a transparent and accessible but in-depth introduction to central developments, issues, and concerns in contemporary world television. Zusammenfassung What is happening today in the world of world television? Fully illustrated, the book also uses case studies and selected reading guides and thus provides a transparent and accessible but in-depth introduction to central developments, issues, and concerns in contemporary world television. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST Television and the Concentration of Ownership ('Old' and 'New' Media: No More Hugs and High Fives), John Sinclair (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia) Television and Democracy: Threats and Opportunities, Graeme Turner (University of Queensland, Australia) Public Service Television: Challenge, Adaptation and Survival, Manuel Alvarado (Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College, UK) (The Case of New Zealand), Roger Horrocks (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Sex, Television and Regulation (The Brass Eye Controversy), Jane Arthurs (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK) Commercialisation of News and Current Affairs, Daniel C. Hallin (University of California, San Diego, USA) (Ethics and Television), Gay Hawkins (University of New South Wales, Australia) Televising War (September 11), Andrew Hoskins (University of Wales, UK) 2. TELEVISION AND DEREGULATED GLOBAL MARKETS Globalisation and Regulation, Marc Raboy (University of Montreal, Canada) Globalisation and National Identity (The 2002 World Cup), John Tomlinson (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Television and Local/Imagined Communities (Giobalisation of Indian TV: Diaspora as Imagined Community), Daya Kishan Thussu (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Limits to Regulation: StarTV in Asia (Global Advertising and Deregulation), Amos Owen Thomas (Griffith University, Australia) Europe as a Television Market (European Im...
