International communication : a reader / edited by Daya K. Thussu

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Infrastructure for international communication. Satellites and global communication / Joseph Pelton -- The global network society / Manuel Castells -- Impact of WTO on global communication / Eli Noam -- Global media policy / Marc Raboy -- Theoretical terrains. Media and modernization / Daniel Lerner -- Communication and post-colonialism / Raka Shome and Radha Hegde -- Development communication / Srinivas Melkote -- Communication and digital capitalism / Dan Schiller -- Global media systems. Media imperialism / Oliver Boyd-Barrett -- Homogenizing media cultures? / Daniel Hallin and Poulo Mancini -- The global media system / Robert McChesney -- Contra-flow in global media / Daya Thussu -- Anglo-American Media in decline? / Jeremy Tunstall -- Dominant and alternative discourses. Cultural imperialism / Herbert Schiller -- Communication and cultural proximity / Joseph Straubhaar -- The Islamic Internet / Lina Khatib -- Alternative media /John Downing -- Communication and power. Global communication as ideology / Armand Mattelart -- Communication as propaganda / Harold Lasswell -- Soft Power / Joseph Nye -- Media and sovereignty / Monroe Price -- Cultures of global communication. Global media consumption / Elihu Katz and Tamar Leibes -- Disjunctures of global culture / Arjun Appadurai -- Cultures of diasporic media / Karim H. Karim -- Decentred globalization / Kochi Iwabuchi -- Hybridity and globalization / Marwan Kraidy -- Global creative convergence / Mark Deuze.