New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

Contributions by Amin Alhassan, Heidi Marie Brush, François Debrix, John D. H. Downing, John Nguyet Erni, Michael Robert Evans, Marouf Hasian, Clifford A. Jones, Marwan M. Kraidy, John Nerone professor, College of Communications Scholar, director of graduate studies, Rick Rockwell, S Sayyid, Sujatha Sosale, McKenzie Wark Edited by Mehdi Semati

Publication date:

02 April 2004

Length of book:

320 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

227x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742530195

New Frontiers in International Communication Theory offers a wide-ranging assessment of the present state of the field of international communication and charts new directions for theory and research. It brings together renowned and emerging scholars who challenge the field to move beyond the limits of existing formulations, approaches, and trajectories, providing an alternative and a supplement to traditional approaches in analysis and study. In rethinking the central problematics of the field, exploring established and new tools and models of inquiry, and articulating new research agendas, this interdisciplinary collection anticipates the future of international communication studies.

Chapter 1 Introduction: New Frontiers in International Communication
Part 2 Part I: Rethinking Problematics in International Communication
Chapter 3 1 Four Theories of the Press in Hindsight: Reflections on a Popular Model
Chapter 4 2 Towards a Critical Genealogy of Communication, Development, and Social Change
Chapter 5 3 Communication and the Postcolonial Nation-State: A New Political Economic Research Agenda
Chapter 6 4 Global AIDS, IT, and Critical Humanism: Reframing International Health Communication
Part 7 Part II: The Global Vectors of Communication
Chapter 8 5 The Terror of the Image: International Relations and the Global Image Circuitry
Chapter 9 6 The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual
Chapter 10 7 Empire, War, and Antiwar Media
Part 11 Part III: Models and Tools for Inquiry in International Communication
Chapter 12 8 Transfrontier Media, Law, and Cultural Policy in the European Union
Chapter 13 9 Democratization and the Media: Reflections on the Central American Experience
Chapter 14 10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Ethnographic Research in International Communication Studies
Part 15 Part IV: On the Political-Theoretical Horizons of International Communication
Chapter 16 11 Cells, Nets, and the Security State: Transnational Political Organizations and the Governing of the Internet
Chapter 17 12 From Culture to Hybridity in International Communication
Chapter 18 13 Transnational Genome Debates and the Return of Eugenics
Chapter 19 14 Islamism and the Politics of Eurocentrism

International communication is expanding in volume, scope, and significance. Academic study of this field becomes ever more important as new and challenging theoretical issues are on the agenda. This creates the need for sound, readable, and enlightening texts on international communication, and this book is a splendid example of such a text. Highly recommended reading!