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The media and globalization / Terhi Rantanen.

By: Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2005.Description: viii, 180 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0761973133
  • 0761973125 (cased)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM1206 .R36 2005
Contents:
Theorizing media and globalization -- A history of mediated globalization -- Time, place and space -- Homogenization -- Heterogenization -- Mediated cosmopolitanism?
Summary: Finding communication, cultural, and globalization studies to be methodologically lacking for the study of the connections between globalization and media, the author proposes using "global mediagraphy" for the purpose. Conceptually similar to ethnography, his "global mediagraphy" is influenced by Appadurai's theory of scapes (ethnoscape, mediascape, technoscape, financescape, and ideoscape) for defining globalization except that it proceeds from the individual level. He analyzes the lives of three different families from around the world from 1890 to 2003, developing the idea that "individuals, through their individual media activities, which become social practices, contribute to globalization." Annotation #169;2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection HM 1206 .R36 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 251611

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-172) and index.

Theorizing media and globalization -- A history of mediated globalization -- Time, place and space -- Homogenization -- Heterogenization -- Mediated cosmopolitanism?

Finding communication, cultural, and globalization studies to be methodologically lacking for the study of the connections between globalization and media, the author proposes using "global mediagraphy" for the purpose. Conceptually similar to ethnography, his "global mediagraphy" is influenced by Appadurai's theory of scapes (ethnoscape, mediascape, technoscape, financescape, and ideoscape) for defining globalization except that it proceeds from the individual level. He analyzes the lives of three different families from around the world from 1890 to 2003, developing the idea that "individuals, through their individual media activities, which become social practices, contribute to globalization." Annotation #169;2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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