Globalization, Development and the Mass Media

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SAGE, 20 nov. 2007 - 264 pages
Globalization, Development and the Mass Media gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization.

It examines two main currents of thought. Firstly, the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development. It traces the evolution of thinking from attempts to spread ′modernity′ by way of using the media through to alternative perspectives based on encouraging participation in development communication. Secondly, the elaboration of the theory of media imperialism, the criticisms that it provoked and its replacement as the dominant theory of international communication by globalization.

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Table des matières

1 INTRODUCTION
1
2 COMMUNICATING MODERNITY
20
3 THE PASSING OF MODERNITY
38
4 VARIETIES OF PARTICIPATION
56
5 CULTURAL AND MEDIA IMPERIALISM
81
6 THE FAILURE OF THE IMPERIALISM PARADIGM
105
7 GLOBALIZATION AND THE MEDIA
126
8 THE LIMITS OF GLOBALIZATION
149
9 TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM
189
REFERENCES
227
INDEX
253
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Page 150 - In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National onesidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures there arises a world literature.
Page 13 - I mean to suggest that some accepted examples of actual scientific practice — examples which include law, theory, application, and instrumentation together — provide models from which spring particular coherent traditions of scientific research.
Page 19 - The earliest definition of development was 'a type of social change in which new ideas are introduced into a social system in order to produce higher per capita incomes and levels of living through more modern production methods and improved social organization
Page 150 - All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed not only at home, but in every quarter...
Page 126 - Globalization as a concept refers both to the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole . . . both concrete global interdependence and consciousness of the global whole
Page 20 - Historically, modernization is the process of change towards those types of social, economic, and political systems that have developed in Western Europe and North America from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth and have then spread to other European countries and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the South American, Asian and African continents (Eisenstadt, 1966, p.
Page 20 - What is involved in modernization is a "total" transformation of a traditional or pre-modern society into the types of technology and associated social organization that characterize the "advanced" economically prosperous, and relatively politically stable nations of the Western World.
Page 22 - Modernization at the individual level corresponds to development at the societal level. Modernization is the process by which individuals change from a traditional way of life to a more complex, technologically advanced and rapidly changing style of life
Page 95 - In this sense , the concept of cultural imperialism today best / describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating center of the system.
Page 95 - English linguistic imperialism', defined by Phillipson in the following terms: A working definition of English linguistic imperialism is that the dominance of English is asserted and maintained by the establishment and continuous reconstitution of structural and cultural inequalities between English and other languages.

À propos de l'auteur (2007)

Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the Univeristy of Westminster and Co-Editor of Media, Culture and Society. Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society.

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