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Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies


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Through publishing comparative and region-specific studies, this series aims to bring Asian, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern media and cultural studies scholarship to the English speaking world and--in addition-- to promote cutting edge research on the globalization of media, culture, and communication.

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Digital Platforms and the Global South Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries

Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries

1st Edition

Edited By Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide, Tristan Mattelart
December 01, 2023

This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers – including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or ...

Making Policy for the New Information Economy Comparing China and India

Making Policy for the New Information Economy: Comparing China and India

1st Edition

By Krishna Prasad Jayakar, Chun Liu
September 08, 2023

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developing economies, China and India. With a focus on how policies are made rather than what those policies are, the book investigates how policy actors ...

Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic An Asian Perspective

Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective

1st Edition

By Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Yi-Hui Huang, Dong Dong, Hai Liang, Guanxiong Huang, Sibo Wang
September 08, 2023

This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and ...

Seeking Truth in International TV News China, CGTN and the BBC

Seeking Truth in International TV News: China, CGTN and the BBC

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By Vivien Marsh
March 17, 2023

This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC’s international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing ‘truths’ in the exacting business of news reporting. Written by a media scholar and former long-serving BBC News journalist, Seeking Truth in International TV News asks if ...

Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems The Case of Southeast Europe

Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems: The Case of Southeast Europe

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By Zrinjka Peruško, Dina Vozab, Antonija Čuvalo
August 01, 2022

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate ...

The News Media in Puerto Rico Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises

The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises

1st Edition

By Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, Jairo Lugo-Ocando
August 01, 2022

The News Media in Puerto Rico offers a synopsis as well as a critical analysis of the Island’s news media system, with emphasis on the political and economic factors that most influence how the media operate. The authors also document the impact of Hurricane Maria on the media structures and the ...

Internet Memes and Society Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts

Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts

1st Edition

By Anastasia Denisova
March 26, 2019

This book provides a solid, encompassing definition of Internet memes, exploring both the common features of memes around the globe and their particular regional traits. It identifies and explains the roles that these viral texts play in Internet communication: cultural, social and political ...

The International Photojournalism Industry Cultural Production and the Making and Selling of News Pictures

The International Photojournalism Industry: Cultural Production and the Making and Selling of News Pictures

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By Jonathan Ilan
July 18, 2018

How are events turned into news pictures that define them for the audience? How do events become commodified into pictures that both capture them and reiterate the values of the agencies that sell them? This book looks at every stage of the production of news photographs as they move to and from ...

Global Convergence Cultures Transmedia Earth

Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth

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Edited By Matthew Freeman, William Proctor
April 30, 2018

Today’s convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more. This transmedia phenomenon may be a common ...

Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History

Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History

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Edited By Stewart Anderson, Melissa Chakars
February 05, 2018

This innovative collection investigates the ways in which television programs around the world have highlighted modernization and encouraged nation-building. It is an attempt to catalogue and better understand the contours of this phenomenon, which took place as television developed and expanded in...

Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan

Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan

1st Edition

By Farooq Sulehria
December 11, 2017

Examining anew the notions of media imperialism and globalization of media, this book disrupts the generalised consensus in media scholarship that globalization of media has put an end to media imperialism. One elemental aspect of media imperialism is the structural dependency of television systems...

Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India The Making of an Info-Nation

Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India: The Making of an Info-Nation

1st Edition

By Biswarup Sen
October 12, 2017

The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention has been paid to those scenarios where states ...

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