International Communication

Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication, a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng, 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014, he was honored with a "Distinguished Scholar Award" by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication.

VOLUME ONE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT The Political Economy of Information - Laurie Wilson and Ibrahim Al-Muhanna The Impact of Transborder Data Flows Reasons for the U.S. Dominance of the International Trade in Television Programmes - Colin Hoskins and Rolf Mirus The Movement for a New World Information and Communication Order - Colleen Roach A Second Wave? From Cultural Defence to Political Culture - Philip Schlesinger Media, Politics and Collective Identity in the European Union Media Imperialism Revisited - Kalyani Chadha and Anandam Kavoori Some Findings from the Asian Case World Communications in Today's Age of Capital - Dan Schiller Ideas in Our Heads - Karol Jakubowicz Introduction of PSB as Part of Media System Change in Central and Eastern Europe The Effects of Satellite Technology on News-Gathering from Remote Locations - Steven Livingston and Douglas Van Belle Cyberspace, Globalization and Empire - Oliver Boyd Barrett Reinterpretation of Cultural Imperialism - Dal Yong Jin Emerging Domestic Market versus Continuing U.S. Dominance The Emergence of Clusters in the Global Telecommunications Network - Seungyoon Lee et al Neo-Liberal Visions and Revisions in Global Communications Policy from NWICO to WSIS - Victor Pickard What's Wrong with Globalization? - Colin Sparks Reflections on New Technologies and International Broadcasting: - Monroe Price, Susan Haas and Drew Margolin Adaptations and Transformations Communication and Empire - Dwayne Winseck and Robert Pike Media Markets, Power and Globalization, 1860-1910 Political Communication - Michael Gurevitch, Stephen Coleman and Jay Blumler Old and New Media Relationships Al-Jazeera English - Mohammed el-Nawawy and Shawn Powers A Conciliatory Medium in a Conflict-Driven Environment? Who Tube? How YouTube's News and Politics Space Is Going Mainstream - Albert May VOLUME TWO: THEORIZING COMMUNICATION The Theory of Political Propaganda - Harold Lasswell A Structure of Foreign News - Johan Galtung A Structural Theory of Imperialism - Johan Galtung Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun Appadurai The Policy-Media Interaction Model - Piers Robinsons Measuring Media Power during Humanitarian Crisis Hybridity in Cultural Globalization - Marwan Kraidy An Archaeology of the Global Era - Armand Mattelart Constructing a Belief Post-Colonial Approaches to Communication - Raka Shome and Rahda Hegde Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections On the Challenges of Cross-National Comparative Media Research - Sonia Livingstone The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence - Henry Jenkins The 'System' of Automobility - John Urry Understanding New Digital Media - Lars Qvortrup Medium Theory or Complexity Theory? In Search of a Strong European Public Sphere - Slavko Splichal Some Critical Observations on Conceptualizations of Publicness and the (European) Public Sphere The Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) Campaign - Pradip Thomas Applying Social Movement Theories to an Analysis of Global Media Reform Transnationalizing the Public Sphere - Nancy Fraser On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World Neo-Liberalism as Creative Destruction - David Harvey The New Public Sphere - Manuel Castells Global Civil Society, Communication Networks and Global Governance Public Diplomacy and Soft Power - Joseph Nye Jr. Grounding Critical Communication Studies - Christian Fuchs An Inquiry into the Communication Theory of Karl Marx Towards an Ontology of Media - Friedrich Kittler VOLUME THREE: POLITICS AND COMMUNICATION Communication and the End of Sovereignty? - Andrew Calabrese Political Clientelism and the Media - Daniel Hallin and Stylianos Papathanassopoulos Southern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective Audiences and Readers of Alternative Media - John Downing The Absent Lure of the Virtually Unknown Reel Bad Arabs - Jack Shaheen How Hollywood Vilifies a People Media Propaganda and Spectacle in the War on Iraq - Douglas Kellner A Critique of U.S. Broadcasting Networks The WSIS as a Political Space in Global Media Governance - Marc Raboy Embedding the Truth - Sean Aday, Steven Livingston and Maeve Hebert A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Objectivity and Television Coverage of the Iraq War The Internet, Public Spheres and Political Communication - Peter Dahlgren Dispersion and Deliberation From Hard to Soft News Standards? How Political Journalists in Different Media Systems Evaluate Shifting Quality of News - Fritz Plasser Unveiling Imperialism - Carol Stabile Media, Gender and the War on Afghanistan Censorship in Contemporary Russian Journalism in the Age of the War against Terrorism - Greg Simons and Dmitry Strovsky An Historical Perspective The Revival of the Propaganda State - Nancy Snow and Philip Taylor U.S. Propaganda at Home and Abroad since 9/11 Have You Played the War on Terror? - Roger Stahl Party-Market Corporatism, Clientelism and Media in Shanghai - Chin-Chuan Lee, Zhou He and Yu Huang Mapping the Blogosphere - Stephen Reese et al Professional and Citizen-Based Media in the Global News Arena What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio Machete' - Scott Straus Soft Power - Alan Hunter China on the Global Stage Framing Islam - Deepa Kumar The Resurgence of Orientalism during the Bush II Era VOLUME FOUR: CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION Music Television and the Invention of Youth Culture in India - Vamsee Juluri Who Initiates a Global Flow? Japanese Popular Culture in Asia - Yoshiko Nakano Media Capital - Michael Curtin Towards the Study of Spatial Flows Communicating Islamic Fundamentalism as Global Citizenship - Lina Khatib McTV - Silvio Waisbord Understanding the Global Popularity of Television Formats The Transnationalization of the Telenovela Industry, Territorial References and the Production of Markets and Representations of Transnational Identities - Daniel Mato Globalization and Hybridization in Cultural Products - Georgette Wang and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh The Cases of Mulan and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Far-Right Media on the Internet - Chris Atton Culture, Discourse and Power Policy Agenda-Setting and Risk Communication - Vian Bakir Greenpeace, Shell and Issues of Trust Console Video Games and Global Corporations - Mia Consalvo Creating a Hybrid Culture A Latin American Perspective on Communication/Cultural Mediation - Jesus Martin-Barbero Capitulation to Capital? Ohmynews as Alternative Media - Eun-Gyoo Kim and James W. Hamilton The Mass Production of Celebrity 'Celetoids', Reality TV and the 'Demotic Turn' - Graeme Turner Security, Media and Multicultural Citizenship - Marie Gillespie A Collaborative Ethnography Hanryu Sweeps East Asia: - Toru Hanaki et al How Winter Sonata Is Gripping Japan The Melodramas of Globalization - Bhaskar Sarkar Popular Culture and Social Change in Africa - Adedayo Ladigbolu Abah The Case of the Nigerian Video Industry Going beyond the Dualistic View of Culture and Market Economy - Georgette Wang Learning from the Localization of Reality Television in Greater China Television and the Transformation of Sport - Garry Whannel