Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
About the Book Series
Through publishing comparative and region-specific studies, this series aims to bring Asian, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern media and cultural studies scholarship to the English speaking world and--in addition-- to promote cutting edge research on the globalization of media, culture, and communication.
Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
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By Celine Yunya Song, Daya Thussu, Drew Margolin
December 15, 2025
Checking the Fact-Checkers offers a multi-disciplinary resource of global and state-of-the-art academic research and industrial practices in fact-checking from leading and emerging scholars around the world. Chapters in this book provide a unique global and multi-disciplinary perspective for ...
Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries
1st Edition
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By Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide, Tristan Mattelart
May 06, 2025
This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers – including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists – who ...
Fake News Across Asian Countries
1st Edition
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By Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
March 20, 2025
This book integrates insights from studies conducted across Asia to provide a comprehensive account of the fake news problem in the region. Emerging from a study on how Singapore stakeholders define, determine, and deal with online falsehoods, the volume expands to cover numerous Asian contexts, ...
Making Policy for the New Information Economy: Comparing China and India
1st Edition
By Krishna Prasad Jayakar, Chun Liu
December 18, 2024
This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developing economies, China and India. With a focus on how policies are made rather than what those policies are, the book investigates how policy actors ...
Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective
1st Edition
By Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Yi-Hui Huang, Dong Dong, Hai Liang, Guanxiong Huang, Sibo Wang
December 18, 2024
This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and ...
Seeking Truth in International TV News: China, CGTN and the BBC
1st Edition
By Vivien Marsh
October 07, 2024
This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC’s international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing ‘truths’ in the exacting business of news reporting. Written by a media scholar and former long-serving BBC News journalist, Seeking Truth in International TV News asks if ...
Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems: The Case of Southeast Europe
1st Edition
By Zrinjka Peruško, Dina Vozab, Antonija Čuvalo
August 01, 2022
This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate ...
The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises
1st Edition
By Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, Jairo Lugo-Ocando
August 01, 2022
The News Media in Puerto Rico offers a synopsis as well as a critical analysis of the Island’s news media system, with emphasis on the political and economic factors that most influence how the media operate. The authors also document the impact of Hurricane Maria on the media structures and the ...
Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History
1st Edition
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By Stewart Anderson, Melissa Chakars
February 05, 2018
This innovative collection investigates the ways in which television programs around the world have highlighted modernization and encouraged nation-building. It is an attempt to catalogue and better understand the contours of this phenomenon, which took place as television developed and expanded in...
Digital Politics and Culture in Contemporary India: The Making of an Info-Nation
1st Edition
By Biswarup Sen
October 12, 2017
The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention has been paid to those scenarios where states ...
Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape: The South is Talking Back
1st Edition
By Tine Ustad Figenschou
June 16, 2017
This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment,’ it tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal, in-depth analysis of...
Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures
1st Edition
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By Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker
April 27, 2016
Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a ...