"This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video ne
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ws and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation and globalization on the news agency business. Contributors consider how leading players like Reuters and Associated Press help to define the nature of both the Global and the Local as well as focusing on the network of relations between international and national agencies." (Publisher description)
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"The present work considers the many possible uses of information technologies from the viewpoint of newspapers, with particular reference to small- and medium-sized papers in Asia and the Pacific. Despite, and perhaps even because of, the special challenges faced by this region, due for example to
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its vast cultural and economic diversity and its multitude of languages based on non-Roman scripts, it is hoped that the work will also be of interest to newspaper and allied media professionals in other developing regions." (Preface, page 6)
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"Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re) construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Macedonian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes t
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hat affected these diasporic groups due to the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She vividly describes the migrant audience’s daily encounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness. The author provides a valuable and unique insight into how migrant cultures are shaped and changed through the reception and assimilation of images seen on video and television screens. Using the combination of close and powerful semiotic analysis of video texts with an informed account of social, political and historical contexts, Kolar-Panov recalls the complex relationships between ethnicity, technology and the reconstruction of identity." (Publisher description)
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