About the Book
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 Lundgreen, Vincent Mosco, Nicholas Nicoli, Allen Palmer, Kuldip R. Rampal, Devan Rosen, Harmeet Sawhney, Richard Vincent, and Marina Vujnovic.
Table of Contents:
*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
Yesim 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
About the Author :
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.
Review :
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.
