Democratizing global media : one world, many struggles / edited by Robert A. Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao. - Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005. - xiv, 328 p. ; 23 cm. - Critical media studies : institutions, politics, and culture . - Critical media studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Majid Tehranian -- Media globalization, media democratization : challenges, issues, and paradoxes / Yuezhi Zhao, Robert A. Hackett -- Civil society as contested concept : media and political transformation in eastern and central Europe / Colin Sparks -- Who wants democracy and does it deliver food? : communication and power in a globally integrated China / Yuezhi Zhao -- Contested futures : Indian media at the crossroads / Pradip Thomas -- Changing political cultures and media under globalism in Latin America / Javier Protzel -- Media in "globalizing" Africa : what prospect for democratic communication? / Arthur-Martins Aginam -- Globalization, regionalization, and democratization : the interaction of three paradigms in the field of mass communication / Kai Hafez -- Constructing collective identities and democratic media in a globalizing world : Israel as a test case / Dov Shinar -- The Iraq conflict and the media : embedded with war rather than with peace and democracy / Jan Oberg - Global media governance as a potential site of civil society intervention / Sean O. Siochru -- Beyond wiggle room : American corporate media's democratic deficit, its global implications, and prospects for reform / Robert W. McChesney; Robert A. Hackett -- Globalization, communication, democratization : toward gender equality / Annabelle Sreberny -- Peace journalism : a global dialog for democracy and democratic media / Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick -- Finding a frame : toward a transnational advocacy campaign to democratize communication/Sean O. Siochru.

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Communication in politics.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Democratization.
Democracy.

JA85 / .D43 2005

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