ABSTRACT
Although the majority of debates discuss journalism as a public discourse sphere of one society (often in relation to the US), more recent debates begin to capture important theoretical aspects of this new enlarged ‘news’ geography. McNair (2005: 156) argues, for example, that the globalized news sphere is in fact in the process of creating an ‘emerging chaos’ of a globalized news culture in the sense that the connection of ‘the national’, the ‘transnational’ and the ‘global’ spheres of public discourse produces ‘unpredictable and largely uncontrollable outcomes’. Whereas McNair’s model addresses new ‘risks’ of this globalized news territory, Cottle and Rai (2006) suggest a model of ‘communicative architecture’ and identify a number of ‘communicative frames’ of transnational journalism, such as terrestrial and satellite news reporting in a transnational context. Contributors to the debate, such as Stuart Allan (2004, 2005), consider online journalism as a new form of globalized news culture. Others relate these phenomena to debates in the theoretical framework of a globalized public sphere (Dahlgren, 1995; Sparks, 1998; Volkmer, 2005).
