Full Description
In this comprehensive volume, leading scholars of media and communication examine the nexus of globalization, digital media, and popular culture in the early 21st century.
The book begins by interrogating globalization as a critical and intensely contested concept, and proceeds to explore how digital media have influenced a complex set of globalization processes in broad international and comparative contexts. Contributors address a number of key political, economic, cultural, and technological issues relative to globalization, such as free trade agreements, cultural imperialism, heterogeneity, the increasing dominance of American digital media in global cultural markets, the powers of the nation-state, and global corporate media ownership. By extension, readers are introduced to core theoretical concepts and practical ideas, which they can apply to a broad range of contemporary media policies, practices, movements, and technologies in different geographic regions of the world—North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.
Scholars of global media, international communication, media industries, globalization, and popular culture will find this to be a singular resource for understanding the interconnected relationship between digital media and globalization.
Contents
Introduction Part I: History, Theory, and Globalization 2. The Struggle for Control in the Age of Imperialism vs the Belle Époque of Liberal Internationalism and the Modern World Economy in Communications History 3. Cultural proximity 4. Environmental Materialism and Media Globalization 5. "Marveling" the World with Hollywood Militainment: The US Air Force and Captain Marvel Go Higher! Further! Faster! Part II. Capitalism, Structure, and Institutions 6. The Contribution of Global Media to Ethical Capitalism 7. Feminist Scholarship on the Global Digital Divide: A Critique of International Organizations and Information Companies 8. The Korean Wave and the New Global Media Economy Part III. Popular Culture and Globalization 9. In the Name of National Interest: Globalization and Media Culture in 21st Century Japan 10. Starbucks' Dream of Global Taste 11. "Therapeutic and Inspiring"—Japanese Pop Culture in PRC and the Issue of Asian Modernity 12. Inter-Asia Media/Cultural Studies in the Era of Hate 13. Disciplining Transnational Popular Culture's Counter-Flows on Family GuyPart IV. Digital Platforms and Globalization 14. European Responses to (US) Digital Platform Dominance 15. Streaming Diplomacy: Netflix's Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy 16. Online Platforms, Cultural Power, and China's Pan-Asian Strategy 17. Netflix's Corporate Sphere in Asia in the Digital Platform Era Part V. Digital Media, Social Media, and Globalization 18. Digital Media and the Globalizing Spread of Populism 19. Lethal, Viral, Global: The Role of Mobile Media and the Growing International Scourge of Fake News 20. Machine Translation: Mediating Linguistic Difference in the Era of Globalization 21. Playing with Chinese Characteristics: The Landscape of Video Games in China 22. Trolling and Praising the Arab Spring on Twitter 23. Receiving Unfamiliar Culture in Post-Colonial Latin America in the Digital Age: Interpretations of Anime, Manga, and K-pop by Chilean Fans Part VI. Globalization, Migration, and Mobility 24. Multilayered Identities and Coexistence of Preferences for National and US Television 25. Globalization and Coproduction in Latin America 26. Temporal Dimensions of Transient Migration Studies: The case of Korean Visa Migrants' Media Practices in the US 27. On the Post-Social Marketization of the Press in Central and Eastern Europe: A View from Germany 28. Cultural Politics of Global Online Subscription Video-on-Demand Services in Canada: A Case Study of Netflix Canada
