Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media

Esperança Bielsa is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Her research is in the areas of cultural sociology, social theory, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Her most recent books are Cosmopolitanism and Translation (2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization (with D. Kapsaskis, eds. 2021).

'Esperança Bielsa has assembled an excellent and timely collection of essays that explore and illuminate how our media environment is changing from print to digital and how global flows of media are increasing exponentially, demonstrating that it’s more important than ever to reconsider the complex relationships between translation and media.'Jonathan Evans, University of Glasgow, UK'This expertly assembled collection brings together an impressive array of contributors to provide an authoritative snapshot of media translation, both in traditional journalistic settings and social media platforms. Covering key theoretical and methodological issues in the field, the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media is a staple text for anyone interested in emerging translation practices and their impact on contemporary social imaginaries and deliberative processes.'Luis Pérez-González, University of Agder, Norway

• List of figuresList of tables Notes on contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: translation and/in/of mediaPART IGeneral theoretical and methodological perspectives1 Media and translation: historical intersections2 Language, media and culture in an era of communicative change 3 Media translation and politics in multilingual contexts4 The global, the foreign and the domestic. Was there a ‘global turn’ in journalism in the early 21st century?5 Internationalization and localization of media content. The circulation and national mediation of ready-made TV shows and formats6 Revisiting certain concepts of translation studies through the study of media practices7 The translating agent in the media: one or many?8 Translation, media and paratexts9 The multimodal dimension of translationPART II Translation and journalism 10 A historical overview of translation in the global journalistic field11 Journalism and translation: overlapping practices 12 Translation in the news agencies 13 Translation in literary magazines14 Fixers, journalists and translation15 News translation strategies16 Journalism and translation ethics17 Reading translated newsPART III Multimedia translation 18 A connected history of audiovisual translation: sources and resources 19 Film translation 20 Mapping the contemporary landscape of TV translation 21 Media interpreting 22 Translation and the World Wide Web23 Video game localization: translating interactive entertainment24 Translation, accessibility and minorities 25 Audiovisual translation, audiences and receptionPART IVTranslation in alternative and social media 26 Translation and social media 27 Non-professional translators and the media28 Alternative journalism and translation29 Subtitling practices in Islamic satellite television 30 NGOs, media and translation31 A Deaf translation norm?32 Online translation communities and networks 33 Wikipedia and translationIndex