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.
Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media
1st Edition
By Youna Kim
December 10, 2019
This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data ...
Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy Willems, Winston Mano
December 10, 2019
African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds ...
Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Farooq Sulehria
December 10, 2019
Examining anew the notions of media imperialism and globalization of media, this book disrupts the generalised consensus in media scholarship that globalization of media has put an end to media imperialism. One elemental aspect of media imperialism is the structural dependency of television systems...
Children and Media in India: Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change
1st Edition
By Shakuntala Banaji
January 14, 2019
Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India? Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools? What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the ...
Media Across Borders: Localising TV, Film and Video Games
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Esser, Iain Robert Smith, Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino
June 01, 2018
What happened when Sesame Street and Big Brother were adapted for African audiences? Or when video games Final Fantasy and Assassins’ Creed were localized for the Spanish market? Or when Sherlock Holmes was transformed into a talking dog for the Japanese animation Sherlock Hound? Bringing together ...
Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Sun Sun Lim, Cheryll Soriano
April 25, 2018
In Asia, amidst its varied levels of economic development and diverse cultural traditions and political regimes, the Internet and mobile communications are increasingly used in every aspect of life. Yet the analytical frames used to understand the impact of digital media on Asia predominantly ...
European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Assessing the Past, Setting Agendas for the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Seamus Simpson, Manuel Puppis, Hilde van den Bulck
April 25, 2018
Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective media policies can be developed to ensure a ...
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
Edited
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 ...
The Global News Challenge: Market Strategies of International Broadcasting Organizations in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Anne Geniets
April 27, 2016
The Global News Challenge tackles one of the timeliest topics in mass communication today—the challenges facing international broadcasters with universal branding strategies in developing countries. In these heavily government-controlled media environments with a scarcity of reliable information, ...