ABSTRACT
In this comprehensive volume, leading scholars of media and communication examine the nexus of globalization, digital media, and popular culture in the early 21st century.
The book begins by interrogating globalization as a critical and intensely contested concept, and proceeds to explore how digital media have influenced a complex set of globalization processes in broad international and comparative contexts. Contributors address a number of key political, economic, cultural, and technological issues relative to globalization, such as free trade agreements, cultural imperialism, heterogeneity, the increasing dominance of American digital media in global cultural markets, the powers of the nation-state, and global corporate media ownership. By extension, readers are introduced to core theoretical concepts and practical ideas, which they can apply to a broad range of contemporary media policies, practices, movements, and technologies in different geographic regions of the world—North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.
Scholars of global media, international communication, media industries, globalization, and popular culture will find this to be a singular resource for understanding the interconnected relationship between digital media and globalization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
History, Theory, and Globalization
chapter 5|9 pages
“Marveling” the World with Hollywood Militainment
part II|33 pages
Capitalism, Structure, and Institutions
part III|51 pages
Popular Culture and Globalization
chapter 9|11 pages
In the Name of National Interest
part IV|37 pages
Digital Platforms and Globalization
part V|53 pages
Digital Media, Social Media, and Globalization
chapter 23|8 pages
Receiving Unfamiliar Culture in Post-Colonial Latin America in the Digital Age
part VI|58 pages
Globalization, Migration, and Mobility