"Designed as a text with introductions to each section and chapter, the volume brings together diverse perspectives on globalization and communication and includes significant emerging aspects of International Communication research such as diaspora audience and global publics." (Publisher)
Contents
PART I: MAKING SENSE OF GLOBALIZATION
The world horizon opens up: on the sociology of globalization / Ulrich Beck, 3
Disjuncture and difference in global cultural economy / Arjun Appadura, 35
The onset of a borderless world / Elliot Dickinson, 53
Globalism and nationalism: experienced locally / Vandana Pednekar-Magal, 73
PART II: GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNICATION
Drawing a bead on global communication theories / John D. H. Downing, 83
Public diplomacy and soft power / Joseph S. Nuye Jr., 97
Media and sovereignty: the global information revolution and its challenge to state power / Monroe E. Price, 111
Europen film policy and the response to Hollywood / Armand Mattelart, 117
PART III: DIASPORA AND COMMUNICATION
Diasporas and contra-flows beyond nation-centrism / Maria Georgiou and Roger Silverstone, 131
Transnational communities and global communication 7 Vandana Pednekar-Magal and Keith Oppenheim, 147
Brazil and the globalization of telenovelas / Cacilda M. Rêgo and Antonio C. La Pastina, 161
Issues in world cinema / Wimal Dissanayake, 179
PART IV: DISCONTENTS OF GLOBALISM AND NEW DIRECTIONS
Globalism's discontents / Joseph Stiglitz, 193
Counterhegemonic globalization: transnational social movements in the contemporary political economy / Peter Evans, 205
The new public sphere: global civil society, communication networks, and global governance / Manuel Castells, 213