ABSTRACT
De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |15 pages
Introduction
part 1|68 pages
Transitional and mixed societies
chapter 3|14 pages
Media theory after the fall of European communism
Why the old models from East and West won't do any more
chapter 4|11 pages
Media in South America
Between the rock of the state and the hard place of the market
part 2|53 pages
Authoritarian neo-liberal societies
chapter 10|13 pages
Globalized theories and national controls
The state, the market, and the Malaysian media
part 3|30 pages
Authoritarian regulated societies
chapter 11|19 pages
The dual legacy of democracy and authoritarianism
The media and the state in Zimbabwe
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part 4|54 pages
Democratic neo-liberal societies
part 5|76 pages
Democratic regulated societies
chapter 21|17 pages
Performing a dream and its dissolution
A social history of broadcasting in Israel
chapter 22|9 pages
Squaring the circle?
The reconciliation of economic liberalization and cultural values in French television
