Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases

Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone

John Wiley & Sons, Apr 30, 2019 - Social Science - 256 pages

A broad and accessible introduction to national and transnational media

Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journalism and entertainment media—introducing readers to the essential concepts, systems, transnational influences, and power dynamics that shape global media flow. Broad coverage of different media forms from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania offers country-based and transnational perspectives while highlighting examples of media trends in television, radio, film, journalism, social media, music, and others.

Promoting a balanced, multipolar exploration of transnational media, this innovative book discusses topics such as media concentration, the cultural, political, and economic impact of media, and the primary centers of new and traditional media activities. Chapters organized by geographic region offer instructive pedagogical features—including case studies and essays, and illustrations, maps and charts—that strengthen understanding of distinctive and emerging practices in the production, distribution, and consumption of media products.

• Explores a wide range of global media topics, infrastructures, cultures, and political-economic climates
• Written in an engaging, relatable, and easy to understand style
• Covers major aspects of journalism and various forms of entertainment media
• Organized by regions of the world to reflect a global perspective
• Includes newly-written case studies by international scholars from each region

Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative media analysis, international media and communication, and related areas of study, Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases is an indispensable resource for colleges and universities that are internationalizing their curriculum to meet the needs of an increasing globalized world.

Contents

• Contributor Biographies: 7
• Key Concepts and Theories: 13
• Introducing Media Systems: 27
• Africa: 41
• Participatory Communication Culture in Kenya: 65
• The Americas and the Caribbean: 81
• From Media Censorship to Media Ownership New Forms of Communication: 97
• Hollywood the Global Media Market and a Time of Transition: 107
• Asia: 123
• Modern Manga: 141
• Why It Swept the World: 155
• Europe: 171
• The Pirate Party and NonMediaCentric Media Politics: 191
• The Contradictory Roles of RT in a Global Media Age: 207
• Indigenous Media in Australia: 221
• Index: 237

About the author

SUMAN MISHRA, PHD, is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA.

REBECCA KERN-STONE, PHD, is Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Advertising, Manhattan College, USA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases
• Editors: Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2019
• ISBN: 1119394597, 9781119394594
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies