Description
Book SynopsisGlobal Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive how-to guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world.
Trade Review�This is a highly distinctive reformulation of the core concepts and objectives of media studies for the 21st century. Politically engaged, intellectually lucid, impressively wide-ranging in its sources of evidence, at times unapologetically opinionated, and always pitching for your attention, this is a breath of fresh air for the teaching of media studies. The next generation of students will be the better for it.�
Graeme Turner, University of Queensland �Media is the new infrastructural and aesthetic condition of the world, calling for an urgent reassessment of older approaches.
Global Media Studies does precisely this by offering exciting insights into this condition now unfolding before us. Expertly synthesizing debates in media and cultural theory, Miller and Kraidy bring together new perspectives from across the globe to make sense of our changing present.�
Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing SocietiesTable of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter One: Media Studies
Chapter Two: Global Studies
Chapter Three: Political Economy
Chapter Four: Policy and Governance
Chapter Five: Mobile Telephony (with Richard Maxwell)
Chapter Six: The United States of America as Global Media Behemoth (with Bill Grantham)
Chapter Seven: Textual Analysis
Chapter Eight: Reality Television
Chapter Nine: Audiences
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
