Full Description
Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events. * Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle East * Expands the discussion of news systems in developing nations, comparing media growth in India and Africa * Explores the impact of digital media on traditional societies * Features important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting * Surveys the latest developments in new media and forecasts future developments
Contents
Preface to the Eighth Edition vii Introduction 1 1 News Communication for a Global System 11 2 Changing Ideologies of Press Control 24 3 Global News Under Stress 45 4 Digital Media: Global, Interactive, and Free 58 5 The Whole World is Watching: Impact of Great News Events 77 6 Globalization of Media and Language 93 7 China: New Media In An Old Political World 111 8 The Middle East: Media Storms in the Desert 135 9 India and Africa: Contrasts in Development 158 10 Foreign News in Flux 170 11 War Reporting: Fire and Misfire 185 12 Public Diplomacy and Propaganda 206 13 Forecast: Changeable with Cloudy Periods 224 Selected Bibliography 241 Index 245
