Internationalizing "International Communication" /

International communication as a field of inquiry is not very "internationalized." It has been taken as conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication. Worse yet, much of the non-west has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of int...

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Other Authors: Rajagopal, Arvind (Contributor), Dahlgren, Peter, 1946- (Contributor), Benson, Rodney (Contributor), Zhang, Longxi (Contributor), Polumbaum, Judy (Contributor), Waisbord, Silvio R. (Silvio Ricardo), 1961- (Contributor), Sparks, Colin, 1947- (Contributor), Ginneken, Jaap van, 1943- (Contributor), Curtin, Michael (Contributor), Mancini, Paolo (Contributor), Servaes, Jan, 1952- (Contributor), Chang, Tsan-Kuo (Contributor), Katz, Elihu, 1926- (Contributor), Li, Jinquan, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • International communication research: critical reflections and a new point of departure / Chin-Chuan Lee
  • Window shopping: on internationalizing "international communication" / Elihu Katz
  • Beyond Lazarsfeld: international communication research and its production of knowledge / Tsan-Kuo Chang
  • Beyond modernization and the four theories of the press / Jan Servaes
  • Professional models in journalism: between homogenization and diversity / Paolo Mancini
  • Conditions of capital: global media in local contexts / Michael Curtin
  • The enduring strength of Hollywood: the "imperial adventure" genre and Avatar / Jaap van Ginneken
  • Resurrecting the imperial dimension in international communication / Colin Sparks
  • De-Westernization and cosmopolitan media studies / Silvio Waisbord
  • Local experiences, cosmopolitan theories: on cultural relevance in international communication research / Chin-Chuan Lee
  • Theorizing media production as a quasi-autonomous field: a reassessment of China News studies / Judy Polumbaum
  • Translation, communication, and East-West understanding / Zhang Longxi
  • Public spheres, fields, networks: Western concepts for a de-Westernizing world / Rodney Benson
  • Cosmopolitanism and international communication: understanding civil society actors / Peter Dahlgren
  • Postcolonial visual culture: arguments from India / Arvind Rajagopal.