ABSTRACT
You almost certainly have many, daily, experiences of globalised media. The internet alone offers resources which we all assume are global in reach, whether Google, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, email, links to mobile phone technology – and probably much else by the time this book is printed. Your favourite brand may draw on its global advertising power for part of its glamour. US TV series such as Heroes (2006-), Lost (2004-) and Flashback (2009-) display multiple, globally dispersed central characters and settings, as do many ‘blockbuster’ films with their global themes or glamorised tourist settings. All these add to the ease of ‘transnational’ imaginings – as do texts exploring the darker side of globalised migration, of which you or your family may have recent or past experience.
