Robert A. Hackett is professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University in Canada. Yuezhi Zhao is associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University in Canada.

This book . . . stands to become a valuable contribution [to media studies]. It expands our understanding of a tremendously complex and important set of problems in the area of media, globalism, and political culture. Not only do the editors and contributors effectively frame the issues—and the interrelations among the issues—but their work will stimulate discussion across a wide range of readership, and they suggest several fruitful paths of policy development and media activism. . . . The broad cross-cutting issues are considered across the global mediascape of culturally and historically distinct regions and localities.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 1 Media Globalization, Media Democratization: Challenges, Issues, and ParadoxesPart 4 Part I: Media Globalization and Democratic Deficits: National and Regional AuditsChapter 5 2 Civil Society as Contested Concept: Media and Political Transformation in Eastern and Central EuropeChapter 6 3 Who Wants Democracy and Does It Deliver Food? Communication and Power in a Globally Integrated ChinaChapter 7 4 Contested Futures: Indian Media at the CrossroadsChapter 8 5 Changing Political Cultures and Media under Globalism in Latin AmericaChapter 9 6 Media in 'Globalizing' Africa: What Prospects for Democratic Communication?Part 10 Part II: Media and Democracy in Global Sites and ConflictsChapter 11 7 Globalization, Regionalization, and Democratization: The Interaction of Three Paradigms in the Field of Mass CommunicationChapter 12 8 Constructing Collective Identities and Democratic Media in a Globalizing World: Israel as a Test CaseChapter 13 9 The Iraq Conflict and the Media: Embedded with War Rather than with Peace and DemocracyChapter 14 10 Global Media Governance as a Potential Site of Civil Society InterventionPart 15 Part III: Modalities of DemocratizationChapter 16 11 Beyond Wiggle Room: American Corporate Media's Democratic Deficit, Its Global Implications, and Prospects for ReformChapter 17 12 Globalization, Communication, Democratization: Toward Gender EqualityChapter 18 13 Peace Journalism: A Global Dialog for Democracy and Democratic MediaChapter 19 14 Finding a Frame: Towards a Transnational Advocacy Campaign to Democratize CommunicationChapter 20 IndexChapter 21 About the Contributors