ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the changing context for the study of news translation with reference to three disciplines: social theory, translation studies and media studies. News translation is a largely invisible, understudied process. However, it can serve to empirically examine to what extent the news can become a space of cosmopolitan openness to others or whether this is precluded by structural constraints. In this light, the cultural and ethical implications of processes of domestication of foreign news are discussed. A focus on translation also illuminates aspects that have systematically been neglected by studies deploying a national or traditional comparative approach: the multiplicity of connections and influences across borders.