Books in the Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies series

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 different parts of the world between the 1950s and the 1990s.

This collection discusses the main conceptual and practical issues which have framed the academic analysis of communication and media policies in Europe over the course of at least the last decade, exploring the key issues that can set the agenda for the short to medium term in communication and media policy in Europe.

This volume examines digital phenomena and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives.

This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual.

This volume reflects on what comparative media and communication research has achieved or failed to achieve, the epistemological and theoretical challenges it is facing, and the new directions in which it should be heading.

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 different parts of the world between the 1950s and the 1990s.

This volume reflects on what comparative media and communication research has achieved or failed to achieve, the epistemological and theoretical challenges it is facing, and the new directions in which it should be heading.

This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual.

This volume examines digital phenomena and its impact on Asia by drawing on specifically Asian perspectives.

This collection discusses the main conceptual and practical issues which have framed the academic analysis of communication and media policies in Europe over the course of at least the last decade, exploring the key issues that can set the agenda for the short to medium term in communication and media policy in Europe.

This volume provides an overview of media localisation practices and trends and reveals its significance in the audiovisual sector.

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 comprehensive research tool that can both stand the test of time as well as offer researchers (particularly those in the economically developed Global North) models for cross-cultural comparative research.

Offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing an examination of the Internet and Internet studies. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the international Internet, and also explores the implications of such knowledge and accounts for concepts, methods, and themes in Internet studies.

This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution in Eastern Europe.

Highlights dramatic changes in worldwide media production, detailing how collaborations - in the form of co-productions, format franchising and audience interactivity - define the new media economy, and affect a shift across the entire field of cultural production.

Offering an account of the global expansion of Discovery and its relationship with media globalization, this book explores the way in which the processes of media globalization unfold and develop, and traces some of the possible consequences.

Focusing on the case of Japan, this book theorizes the role of media and ICT in media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity. It contributes significantly to the 'internationalisation' of the media studies movement underway in the global era.

Offers an overview of the expansion of the Iranian communication system, examining the political economy of this process and arguing that the nature of Iranian media in general and the press in particular, cannot be understood simply in terms of 'Islamic ideology' or the false dichotomy of 'modernity' versus 'tradition'.

Considers the consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia. This book argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of globalization.

This book offers an exploration of these national and cultural systems of transmediality around the world, showing how national cultures are informing transmediality in different countries. The book spans twelve countries, looking across the UK, Spain, Portugal, France, Estonia, USA, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Japan, India, and Russia.