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Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective

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The fourth edition of Global Communication is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, multicultural, authoritative, and cutting-edge book published in the fields of media, culture, journalism, and communications. Twenty-four highly accomplished and prominent media scholars representing ten countries provide a survey of international communication, public relations and advertising, implications of globalization, international law and regulation, global culture, propaganda, transnational media, the shifting politics of media, trends in communication and information technology, and much more.

The fourth edition includes six new contributors (Lee B. Artz, Daniela V. Dimitrova, Berna Ackali Gur, Petros Iosifidis, Perry Keller, and Nicholas Nicoli) who cover such issues as politics of global culture, global theories, global law, implications of internet and politics. Other chapters are fully updated to foreground contemporary examples and major events that have impacted our global communication environment. Collectively, new contributions and updated chapters reflect the rapid technological and communications changes that are taking place nationally and globally. This eclectic book helps students to understand the emergence of globalization and its effects on a worldwide scale.

Contributors: Lee B. Artz, George A. Barnett, Vibert C. Cambridge, Jane Campbell, Theresa Carilli, Benjamin A. Davis, Daniela V. Dimitrova, John D. H. Downing, Richard A. Gershon, Berna Ackali Gur, Cees Hamelink, Petros Iosifidis, Yahya Kamalipour, Yeşim Kaptan, Perry Keller, Dean Kruckeberg, Lars Lundgren, Vincent Mosco, Nicholas Nicoli, Allen Palmer, Kuldip R. Rampal, Devan Rosen, Harmeet Sawhney, Richard Vincent, and Marina Vujnovic.

*New to fourth edition

Foreword

Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University, Canada

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the Fourth Edition

Yahya R. Kamalipour

List of Acronyms

Section One: Understanding the Historical, Theoretical, and Economic Foundations

1 Following the Historical Paths of Global Communication

Allen Palmer, Brigham Young University

2 Global Communication Theories

Daniela V. Dimitrova, Iowa State University

John D. H. Downing, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale

3 Global Economy and International Telecommunications Networks

Harmeet Sawhney, Indiana University, Bloomington

4 The Transnational Media Corporation and the Economics of Global Competition

Richard A. Gershon, Western Michigan University

Section Two: Understanding the Political, Legal, Cultural, and Global Impact

5 The Politics of Global Communication

Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam

*6 Global Communication Law

Perry Keller, King’s College London

Berna Akcali Gur, Queen Mary University of London

7 Global Communication and Culture

Yeşim Kaptan, Kent State University

8 Global Communication and Propaganda

Richard C. Vincent, Indiana State University

Section Three: Understanding the Digital Age, Global Broadcasting, Information Flow, Advertising, and Public Relations

9 Global Journalism in the Digital Age

John V. Pavlik, Rutgers University

10 Global Broadcasting in the Digital Age

Benjamin A. Davis, Morgan State University

Lars Lundgreen, Södertörn University, Sweden

11 Global News and Information Flow in the Digital Age

Kuldip R. Rampal, Central Missouri State University

12 Global Advertising and Public Relations

Marina Vujnovic, Monmouth University, New Jersey

Dean Kruckeberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Section Four: Understanding the Implications of the Internet and Politics

13 The Global Implications of the Internet: Challenges and Prospects

George A. Barnett, University of California Davis

Devan Rosen, Ithaca College, New York

*14 Platformization of the Internet and Politics

Petros Iosifidis, City, University of London

Nicholas Nicoli, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Section Five: Understanding the Politics of Global Culture, Cultural Diversity, and National Development

*15 Democracy, Cultural Imperialism, and the Politics of Global Culture

Lee B. Artz, Purdue University Northwest

16 Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Digital Age

Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, Purdue University Northwest

17 Milestones in Communication and National Development

Vibert C. Cambridge, Ohio University, Athens

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Index

This updated edition is the ideal book to help us understand the unprecedented contemporary and historical challenges our world is experiencing. Yahya Kamalipour assembles a matchless collection of amazing international critical thinkers willing to address the workings of power in global communication. Look no further, this is the definitive book.

The new fourth edition of Global Communication is an indispensable contribution to the reiteration and transformation of the concept of globalization. Kamalipour’s original vision of globalization is fundamental to understanding its transformative influence on contemporary communications. This new edition is highly recommended for communication studies in the digital age.

Yahya R. Kamalipour is a noted global media and communication scholar and current professor of communications and interim chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at North Carolina A&T State University. For 28 years he served as professor and head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Northwest. His areas of interest and research include globalization, media impact, international communication, Middle East media, and new communication technologies. He has published eighteen books, including Communicating Global Crises: Media, War, Climate, and Politics; Global Media Perceptions of the United States: The Trump Effect; Global Discourse in Fractured Times; and Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age. He has served as an international consultant for several colleges and universities and on advisory/editorial boards of a dozen prominent communication journals. He is founding director of the Global Media Journals network and founding president of the Global Communication Association.

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