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
Edited
By Celine Yunya Song, Daya K. Thussu, Drew Margolin
December 08, 2025
Checking the Fact-Checkers: A Global Perspective brings together a global group of leading and emerging scholars to explore industry practices and theoretical approaches to fact-checking. Scholars from different regions, fields, and disciplines provide a unique global and multi-disciplinary ...
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 ...
The International Photojournalism Industry: Cultural Production and the Making and Selling of News Pictures
1st Edition
By Jonathan Ilan
March 31, 2021
How are events turned into news pictures that define them for the audience? How do events become commodified into pictures that both capture them and reiterate the values of the agencies that sell them? This book looks at every stage of the production of news photographs as they move to and from ...
Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts
1st Edition
By Anastasia Denisova
December 18, 2020
This book provides a solid, encompassing definition of Internet memes, exploring both the common features of memes around the globe and their particular regional traits. It identifies and explains the roles that these viral texts play in Internet communication: cultural, social and political ...
Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth
1st Edition
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By Matthew Freeman, William Proctor
August 14, 2020
Today’s convergent media industries readily produce stories that span multiple media, telling the tales of superheroes across comics, film and television, inviting audiences to participate in the popular universes across cinema, novels, the Web, and more. This transmedia phenomenon may be a common ...
Advancing Comparative Media and Communication Research
1st Edition
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By Joseph M. Chan, Francis L. F. Lee
December 10, 2019
A comparative approach to media and communication research plays an important, if not indispensable, role in achieving a core mission of researchers: to delimit the generality and specificity of media and communication theories, enabling researchers to more readily identify the influence of social,...