International Communication

Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication, a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng, 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014, he was honored with a “Distinguished Scholar Award” by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication.

• VOLUME ONE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXTThe Political Economy of Information - Laurie Wilson and Ibrahim Al-MuhannaThe Impact of Transborder Data FlowsReasons for the U.S. Dominance of the International Trade in Television Programmes - Colin Hoskins and Rolf MirusThe Movement for a New World Information and Communication Order - Colleen RoachA Second Wave?From Cultural Defence to Political Culture - Philip SchlesingerMedia, Politics and Collective Identity in the European UnionMedia Imperialism Revisited - Kalyani Chadha and Anandam KavooriSome Findings from the Asian CaseWorld Communications in Today′s Age of Capital - Dan SchillerIdeas in Our Heads - Karol JakubowiczIntroduction of PSB as Part of Media System Change in Central and Eastern Europe The Effects of Satellite Technology on News-Gathering from Remote Locations - Steven Livingston and Douglas Van BelleCyberspace, Globalization and Empire - Oliver Boyd BarrettReinterpretation of Cultural Imperialism - Dal Yong JinEmerging Domestic Market versus Continuing U.S. DominanceThe Emergence of Clusters in the Global Telecommunications Network - Seungyoon Lee et alNeo-Liberal Visions and Revisions in Global Communications Policy from NWICO to WSIS - Victor PickardWhat′s Wrong with Globalization? - Colin SparksReflections on New Technologies and International Broadcasting: - Monroe Price, Susan Haas and Drew MargolinAdaptations and TransformationsCommunication and Empire - Dwayne Winseck and Robert PikeMedia Markets, Power and Globalization, 1860-1910Political Communication - Michael Gurevitch, Stephen Coleman and Jay BlumlerOld and New Media RelationshipsAl-Jazeera English - Mohammed el-Nawawy and Shawn PowersA Conciliatory Medium in a Conflict-Driven Environment?Who Tube? How YouTube′s News and Politics Space Is Going Mainstream - Albert MayVOLUME TWO: THEORIZING COMMUNICATIONThe Theory of Political Propaganda - Harold LasswellA Structure of Foreign News - Johan GaltungA Structural Theory of Imperialism - Johan GaltungDisjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun AppaduraiThe Policy-Media Interaction Model - Piers RobinsonsMeasuring Media Power during Humanitarian CrisisHybridity in Cultural Globalization - Marwan KraidyAn Archaeology of the Global Era - Armand MattelartConstructing a BeliefPost-Colonial Approaches to Communication - Raka Shome and Rahda HegdeCharting the Terrain, Engaging the IntersectionsOn the Challenges of Cross-National Comparative Media Research - Sonia LivingstoneThe Cultural Logic of Media Convergence - Henry JenkinsThe ′System′ of Automobility - John UrryUnderstanding New Digital Media - Lars QvortrupMedium Theory or Complexity Theory?In Search of a Strong European Public Sphere - Slavko SplichalSome Critical Observations on Conceptualizations of Publicness and the (European) Public SphereThe Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) Campaign - Pradip ThomasApplying Social Movement Theories to an Analysis of Global Media ReformTransnationalizing the Public Sphere - Nancy FraserOn the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian WorldNeo-Liberalism as Creative Destruction - David HarveyThe New Public Sphere - Manuel CastellsGlobal Civil Society, Communication Networks and Global GovernancePublic Diplomacy and Soft Power - Joseph Nye Jr.Grounding Critical Communication Studies - Christian FuchsAn Inquiry into the Communication Theory of Karl MarxTowards an Ontology of Media - Friedrich KittlerVOLUME THREE: POLITICS AND COMMUNICATIONCommunication and the End of Sovereignty? - Andrew CalabresePolitical Clientelism and the Media - Daniel Hallin and Stylianos PapathanassopoulosSouthern Europe and Latin America in Comparative PerspectiveAudiences and Readers of Alternative Media - John DowningThe Absent Lure of the Virtually UnknownReel Bad Arabs - Jack ShaheenHow Hollywood Vilifies a PeopleMedia Propaganda and Spectacle in the War on Iraq - Douglas KellnerA Critique of U.S. Broadcasting NetworksThe WSIS as a Political Space in Global Media Governance - Marc RaboyEmbedding the Truth - Sean Aday, Steven Livingston and Maeve HebertA Cross-Cultural Analysis of Objectivity and Television Coverage of the Iraq WarThe Internet, Public Spheres and Political Communication - Peter DahlgrenDispersion and DeliberationFrom Hard to Soft News Standards? How Political Journalists in Different Media Systems Evaluate Shifting Quality of News - Fritz PlasserUnveiling Imperialism - Carol StabileMedia, Gender and the War on AfghanistanCensorship in Contemporary Russian Journalism in the Age of the War against Terrorism - Greg Simons and Dmitry StrovskyAn Historical PerspectiveThe Revival of the Propaganda State - Nancy Snow and Philip TaylorU.S. Propaganda at Home and Abroad since 9/11Have You Played the War on Terror? - Roger StahlParty-Market Corporatism, Clientelism and Media in Shanghai - Chin-Chuan Lee, Zhou He and Yu HuangMapping the Blogosphere - Stephen Reese et alProfessional and Citizen-Based Media in the Global News ArenaWhat Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda′s ′Radio Machete′ - Scott StrausSoft Power - Alan HunterChina on the Global StageFraming Islam - Deepa KumarThe Resurgence of Orientalism during the Bush II EraVOLUME FOUR: CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION Music Television and the Invention of Youth Culture in India - Vamsee JuluriWho Initiates a Global Flow? Japanese Popular Culture in Asia - Yoshiko NakanoMedia Capital - Michael CurtinTowards the Study of Spatial FlowsCommunicating Islamic Fundamentalism as Global Citizenship - Lina KhatibMcTV - Silvio WaisbordUnderstanding the Global Popularity of Television FormatsThe Transnationalization of the Telenovela Industry, Territorial References and the Production of Markets and Representations of Transnational Identities - Daniel MatoGlobalization and Hybridization in Cultural Products - Georgette Wang and Emilie Yueh-yu YehThe Cases of Mulan and Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonFar-Right Media on the Internet - Chris AttonCulture, Discourse and PowerPolicy Agenda-Setting and Risk Communication - Vian BakirGreenpeace, Shell and Issues of TrustConsole Video Games and Global Corporations - Mia ConsalvoCreating a Hybrid CultureA Latin American Perspective on Communication/Cultural Mediation - Jesus Martin-BarberoCapitulation to Capital? Ohmynews as Alternative Media - Eun-Gyoo Kim and James W. HamiltonThe Mass Production of Celebrity ′Celetoids′, Reality TV and the ′Demotic Turn′ - Graeme TurnerSecurity, Media and Multicultural Citizenship - Marie GillespieA Collaborative EthnographyHanryu Sweeps East Asia: - Toru Hanaki et alHow Winter Sonata Is Gripping JapanThe Melodramas of Globalization - Bhaskar SarkarPopular Culture and Social Change in Africa - Adedayo Ladigbolu AbahThe Case of the Nigerian Video IndustryGoing beyond the Dualistic View of Culture and Market Economy - Georgette WangLearning from the Localization of Reality Television in Greater ChinaTelevision and the Transformation of Sport - Garry Whannel