Democratizing Global Media

One World, Many Struggles

Foreword by Majid Tehranian Contributions by Arthur-Martins Aginam, Kai Hafez University of Erfurt, Germany, Jake Lynch, Robert W. McChesney, Annabel McGoldrick psychotherapist (working as a family therapist at South Pacific Private Hos, Jan Oberg, Javier Protzel, Dov Shinar, Seán Ó Siochrú, Colin Sparks, Annabelle Sreberny, Majid Tehranian, Pradip Ninan Thomas Edited by Robert A. Hackett, Yuezhi Zhao Author of Communication i

Publication date:

07 April 2005

Length of book:

330 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

236x166mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742536425

Democratizing Global Media explores the complex relationship between globalizing media and the spread of democracy around the world. An international, interdisciplinary group of journalists and scholars discusses key—and often contentious—issues such as the power of media, the benefits of media globalization, and the political role of media. More than a critique, Democratizing Global Media offers positive alternatives, from peace journalism to popular movements toward democratizing media and public communication.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 1 Media Globalization, Media Democratization: Challenges, Issues, and Paradoxes
Part 4 Part I: Media Globalization and Democratic Deficits: National and Regional Audits
Chapter 5 2 Civil Society as Contested Concept: Media and Political Transformation in Eastern and Central Europe
Chapter 6 3 Who Wants Democracy and Does It Deliver Food? Communication and Power in a Globally Integrated China
Chapter 7 4 Contested Futures: Indian Media at the Crossroads
Chapter 8 5 Changing Political Cultures and Media under Globalism in Latin America
Chapter 9 6 Media in 'Globalizing' Africa: What Prospects for Democratic Communication?
Part 10 Part II: Media and Democracy in Global Sites and Conflicts
Chapter 11 7 Globalization, Regionalization, and Democratization: The Interaction of Three Paradigms in the Field of Mass Communication
Chapter 12 8 Constructing Collective Identities and Democratic Media in a Globalizing World: Israel as a Test Case
Chapter 13 9 The Iraq Conflict and the Media: Embedded with War Rather than with Peace and Democracy
Chapter 14 10 Global Media Governance as a Potential Site of Civil Society Intervention
Part 15 Part III: Modalities of Democratization
Chapter 16 11 Beyond Wiggle Room: American Corporate Media's Democratic Deficit, Its Global Implications, and Prospects for Reform
Chapter 17 12 Globalization, Communication, Democratization: Toward Gender Equality
Chapter 18 13 Peace Journalism: A Global Dialog for Democracy and Democratic Media
Chapter 19 14 Finding a Frame: Towards a Transnational Advocacy Campaign to Democratize Communication
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Contributors

This book . . . stands to become a valuable contribution [to media studies]. It expands our understanding of a tremendously complex and important set of problems in the area of media, globalism, and political culture. Not only do the editors and contributors effectively frame the issues—and the interrelations among the issues—but their work will stimulate discussion across a wide range of readership, and they suggest several fruitful paths of policy development and media activism. . . . The broad cross-cutting issues are considered across the global mediascape of culturally and historically distinct regions and localities.