Books in the Internationalizing Media Studies series

Mapping BRICS Media is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the emerging media landscape in the world''s most dynamic and fastest growing markets. This pioneering collection focuses on one of the key topics in contemporary international relations - the emergence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) - a grouping that includes some of the world''s largest populations and fastest growing economies. The volume brings together leading scholars, mainly from the BRICS nations, to examine how the emergence of the BRICS media will impact on global media and communication. Contextualizing the rise of the BRICS nations within the broader shifts in global power relations, the chapters investigate the unprecedented growth of the BRICS media within a ''multi-polar'' world, evaluating the media landscapes in the individual BRICS countries, their histories, and their journalism practices, as well as analyzing emerging inter-BRICS media relationships. Accessible and comprehensive, the book provides a critical guide to the complex debates about the impact of the ''rise of the rest'' on the media globe and how far this poses a challenge to the Western-dominated world order and its media systems.

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first account of location technologies internationally (in an expanded sense), and brings together the best available international scholarship on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.

Contemporary BRICS Journalism presents wide ranging findings drawn from over 700 in-depth interviews with journalists in the BRICS countries to illustrate the transitions taking place within the profession in these regions.

This collection brings together distinguished scholars from China and those with deep interest and knowledge of the country, to examine how the emergence of Chinese media will impact on global media and communication. Chapters contextualize the role of the Chinese media in a globalized world, evaluate the media landscape and focus on media practices, drawing on empirical material specifically gathered for this volume. By interrogating the relationship between the Chinese and Western media practices and perceptions, this volume provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the complex debates about the impact of China on the media globe.

This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures and argues for the Korean Wave¿s double capacity in the creation of new and complex spaces of identity that are both enabling and disabling cultural diversity in a digital cosmopolitan world.

This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures and argues for the Korean Wave¿s double capacity in the creation of new and complex spaces of identity that are both enabling and disabling cultural diversity in a digital cosmopolitan world.

Location Technologies in International Context offers the first account of location technologies internationally (in an expanded sense), and brings together the best available international scholarship on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.

Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of democracy and development . Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the African continent, essays employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to ask critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture to the detriment of local traditions. A wide variety of media formats and platforms are discussed, ranging from radio and television to the Internet, mobile phones, street posters, film and music. As part of the Routledge series Internationalizing Media Studies, the book responds to the important challenge of broadening perspectives on media studies by bringing together a range of expert analyses of media in the African continent that will be of interest to students and scholars of media in Africa and further afield.

This book examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'.

The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) have profoundly affected the study of global media. This collection of essays aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit.

The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) have profoundly affected the study of global media. This collection of essays aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit.

Adopting a critical approach in analyses of the BRICS' communication strategies and their effectiveness, this book contextualizes and evaluates the role of the BRICS nations in framing a new global communication order.

Adopting a critical approach in analyses of the BRICS' communication strategies and their effectiveness, this book contextualizes and evaluates the role of the BRICS nations in framing a new global communication order.

Contemporary BRICS Journalism presents wide ranging findings drawn from over 700 in-depth interviews with journalists in the BRICS countries to illustrate the transitions taking place within the profession in these regions.