Mapping BRICS Media

Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland. Author or editor of over 30 books (mainly in Finnish and English), most recently Communication Theories in a Multicultural World (coedited with Clifford Christians, 2014).Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London. Author or editor of 16 books, most recently Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood (2013), he is the Managing Editor of the journal Global Media and Communication.

"This groundbreaking anthology has managed to delineate what is to date the most comprehensive and crystal clear topography of the oft-neglected media and culture in the BRICS nations, to unmask their contextual lacunae, and to uncover the latent (im)possibilities for this emergent geo-political alliance in terms of reinventing the new order of global communication."Shi Anbin, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China "The BRICS countries are the new actors in the global economy that fundamentally challenge the existing world order and its power relations. Part of that world order are today’s media systems and they are confronted with rapidly emerging and growing new cultural powers. This timely and comprehensive study is a key contribution to the exploration and understanding of crucial shifts in the global communication landscape."Cees Hamelink, Professor Emeritus of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands "During the era of digital capitalism, the destiny of the global South remains both open-ended and fateful: Will the rapidly growing communications systems of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa embark on strategies of alternative development, aiming to counter the catastrophic policies of the present, U.S.-centric world order; or, will they abandon their own rich histories of struggle for social justice, hoping merely to adapt and profit from the existing institutions of global exploitation? A profound intervention, Nordenstreng and Thussu's collection helps us toward an answer." Dan Schiller, Professor Emeritus of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Introduction: Contextualizing the BRICS Media Part I: Debates and Concepts 1. BRICS as a New Constellation in International Relations? 2. How Coherent is the BRICS Grouping? 3. The BRICS Formation in Reshaping Global Communication: Possibilities and Challenges 4. The BRICS as Emerging Cultural and Media Powers Part II: Media Systems and Landscapes 5. Brazil: Patrimonialism and Media Democratization 6. Russia: Post-Soviet, Post-Modern and Post-Empire Media 7. India: Multiple Media Explosions 8. China: Power Dynamics Across Four Historical Stages 9. South Africa: A Free Media Still in the Making Part III: Comparative Perspectives 10. BRICS Journalists in Global Research 11. Intra-BRICS Media Exchange 12. Digital BRICS: Building a NWICO 2.0?