Transnational media: concepts and cases
Newark:
Wiley & Sons
(2019), ix, 246 pp.
ISBN 978-1-119-39460-0
"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journalism and entertainment media--introducing readers to the essential concepts, systems, transnational influences, and power dynamics that shape global media flow. Broad coverage of different media forms from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania offers country-based and transnational perspectives while highlighting examples of media trends in television, radio, film, journalism, social media, music, and others." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Introduction / Rebecca Kern-Stone and Suman Mishra, 1
I. SETTING THE FOUNDATIONS: KEY CONCEPTS
2 Transnational media: key concepts and theories / Suman Mishra, 13
3 Introducing media systems / Rebecca Kern-Stone, 27
II. AFRICA
4 Broadcasting in Ghana: opportunities and challenges of a plural media in an evolving African democracy / Isaac Abeku Blankson, 49
5 The state of press freedom in South Africa: robust despite the intimidation / Glenda Daniels, 57
6 Here is our Ushahidi: participatory communication culture in Kenya / D. Ndirangu Wachanga, 65
7 Nollywood: a cinema of stories / Onookome Okome, 73
III. THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN
8 What do they know of telenovela who only telenovela know? melodrama, passion and Latin America's modern identity / O. Hugo Benavides, 91
9 Latin America: from media censorship to media ownership: new forms of communication hegemony across the continent / Fernando Gutierrez and Alejandro Ocampo, 97
10 Hollywood, the global media market, and a time of transition for the American media empire / Thom Gencarelli, 107
11 The "sanctioned" reggae "revolution," and confrontations between cradles of culture / Humphrey A. Regis, 115
IV. ASIA
12 The social media landscape in China / Xinyuan Wang, 131
13 Modern manga / Michael Lewis, 141
14 Bollywood: aspirations of a globalizing India / Suman Mishra, 147
15 The Korean wave: why it swept the world / Shin Dong Kim, 155
16 Al Jazeera and global news: stages of operation / Saba Bebawi, 165
V. EUROPE
17 Public service media in Europe: common values, different political contexts and a variety of practices / Karen Donders, 181
18 Sweden and beyond: the pirate party and non-media-centric media politics / Martin Fredriksson, 191
19 Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA / Scott Fitzgerald, 199
20 Broadcasting against the grain: the contradictory roles of RT in a global media age / Liudmila Voronova & Andreas Widholm, 207
VI. OCEANIA
21 Indigenous media in Australia / Lisa Waller, 221
22 The story of Wellywood: how director Peter Jackson conquered the world while remaining in New Zealand / Grant Hannis, 229
I. SETTING THE FOUNDATIONS: KEY CONCEPTS
2 Transnational media: key concepts and theories / Suman Mishra, 13
3 Introducing media systems / Rebecca Kern-Stone, 27
II. AFRICA
4 Broadcasting in Ghana: opportunities and challenges of a plural media in an evolving African democracy / Isaac Abeku Blankson, 49
5 The state of press freedom in South Africa: robust despite the intimidation / Glenda Daniels, 57
6 Here is our Ushahidi: participatory communication culture in Kenya / D. Ndirangu Wachanga, 65
7 Nollywood: a cinema of stories / Onookome Okome, 73
III. THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN
8 What do they know of telenovela who only telenovela know? melodrama, passion and Latin America's modern identity / O. Hugo Benavides, 91
9 Latin America: from media censorship to media ownership: new forms of communication hegemony across the continent / Fernando Gutierrez and Alejandro Ocampo, 97
10 Hollywood, the global media market, and a time of transition for the American media empire / Thom Gencarelli, 107
11 The "sanctioned" reggae "revolution," and confrontations between cradles of culture / Humphrey A. Regis, 115
IV. ASIA
12 The social media landscape in China / Xinyuan Wang, 131
13 Modern manga / Michael Lewis, 141
14 Bollywood: aspirations of a globalizing India / Suman Mishra, 147
15 The Korean wave: why it swept the world / Shin Dong Kim, 155
16 Al Jazeera and global news: stages of operation / Saba Bebawi, 165
V. EUROPE
17 Public service media in Europe: common values, different political contexts and a variety of practices / Karen Donders, 181
18 Sweden and beyond: the pirate party and non-media-centric media politics / Martin Fredriksson, 191
19 Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA / Scott Fitzgerald, 199
20 Broadcasting against the grain: the contradictory roles of RT in a global media age / Liudmila Voronova & Andreas Widholm, 207
VI. OCEANIA
21 Indigenous media in Australia / Lisa Waller, 221
22 The story of Wellywood: how director Peter Jackson conquered the world while remaining in New Zealand / Grant Hannis, 229
