Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters

Media and Globalization shows why the state matters to media and telecommunications industries in a globalizing world: governments control and regulate these industries in important ways and states remain central arenas for policymaking and international agreements. Using case studies drawn from around the world, this book sheds light on the extent of state power in the face of transnational pressures and explores policy, economics, and culture as they factor into media globalization.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Media Globalization and State Power Part 2 Part I: States and Internet Regulation Chapter 3 Exporting the First Amendment to Cyberspace: The Internet and State Sovereignty Chapter 4 Where the National Meets the Global: Australia's Internet Censorship Policies Part 5 Part II: States and Communications Reform in Societies in Transition Chapter 6 "Negotiated Liberalization": The Politics of Communication Sector Reform in South Africa Chapter 7 State Transformation and India's Telecommunications Reform Chapter 8 The IMF, Globalization, and Changes in the Media-Power Structure in South Korea Part 9 Part III: States, Media, and Regional Cultures Chapter 10 Tensions in the Construction of European Media Policies Chapter 11 The Unsovereign Century: Canada's Media Industries and Cultural Politics Chapter 12 Brazil: The Role of the State in World Television Chapter 13 Epilogue

About the Author :
Nancy Morris is assistant professor of broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media at Temple University. Silvio Waisbord is assistant professor of journalism and mass media at Rutgers University.

Review :
I am impressed with the clarity of the argument and the value of the project—for what is at stake in it is a more balanced, less rhetorically driven debate on the relations of the state and forces of supranational change. . . . A significant contribution to the literature. This book is not only timely but vital for anyone who wants to understand the state of affairs in international communication studies. The topics and nations covered in this collection are of singular importance to the analysis of media and globalization as we feel our way into the twenty-first century. Morris and Waisbord have assembled a remarkably perceptive and prescient group of scholars whose expertise in this area is second to none. A significant contribution to the debate about the often-conflicted relationship between states and globalizing forces in shaping telecommunications policies. The essays assembled here will stimulate and facilitate further comparative analysis of the responses of media systems in different countries to the forces of globalization. Provocative book. An important source that furthers understanding and leads the way for additional research. This edited collection is clearly relevant to the tensions between the state and global media and it is an extremely useful text for teaching.