Democratizing Global Media

One World, Many Struggles

Foreword by Majid Tehranian Edited by Robert A. Hackett, Yuezhi Zhao

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Publication date:

07 April 2005

Length of book:

330 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742576728

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
Chapter 4
Chapter 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?
Chapter 10
Chapter 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
Chapter 15
Chapter 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

The book offers not only a nuanced and complex presentation of democratic media formations but also, and most useful, a possible model: i.e., regimes that have devised a multiple-media system that includes state, commercial, public, and community media, ownership, and control offer the most balanced and democratized communication. Highly recommended....