
The Myth of Media Globalization
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Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers,as in many other books, Kai Hafez analyses the degree to whichmedia globalization is really taking place. Do we have enoughevidence to show that there is a linear and accelerated movetowards transnationalization in the media?
All too often the empirical data presented seems rather moreanecdotal than representative. Many transborder media phenomena areoverestimated and taken out of the context of locally andnationally oriented mainstream media processes all over the world.The inherent danger is that a central paradigm of the socialsciences, rather than bearing scholarly substance, will turn out tobe a myth and even a sometimes dangerously ideological tool.
Based on a theoretical debate of media globalization, the workdiscusses most major fields of media development, including foreignreporting, satellite TV, film, internet, foreign broadcasting,media and migration, media policy and media economy. As animportant new contribution to timely debates, The Myth of MediaGlobalization will be essential and provocative reading forstudents and scholars alike.
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Introduction 1
1 Theory - Structural Transformation of the Global PublicSphere? 7
2 International Reporting - 'No Further thanColumbus . . .' 24
3 Satellite Television - the Renaissance of World Regions56
4 Film and Programme Imports - Entertainment Culture asthe Core of Media Globalization 82
5 The Internet - the Information Revolution Which Came TooLate for the 'Third Wave of Democratization' 100
6 International Broadcasting - from National Propaganda toGlobal Dialogue and Back Again 118
7 Media and Immigration - Ethnicity and Transculturalismin the Media Age 128
8 Media Policy - why the State Continues to Play a Role142
9 Media Capital - the Limits of Transnationalization158
Conclusion: Globalization - a Necessary Myth 167
Notes 175
Bibliography 197
Internet Sources 214
Index 217
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