Media Imperialism

Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University.Tanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Communication and Digital Media Studies program, and the Vice-President of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA).

Here readers can encounter the variety and vigor of media/cultural imperialism approaches to the ever-evolving global mediascape. In a single reference work, seasoned researchers from across the planet sharply challenge enduring myopias of much conventional media research. A vital contribution to debate and analysis.

• Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change, an IntroductionOliver Boyd-Barrett and Tanner MirrleesPart 1 – Contextualizing and Conceptualizing Empire and Media imperialismChapter 1 - Media and Cultural Imperialism: Genealogy of an IdeaOliver Boyd-BarrettChapter 2 - Historicizing and Theorizing Media and Cultural ImperialismKaarle Nordenstreng, Marko Ampuja & Juha KoivistoChapter 3 – The US Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A Reconceptualization and 20th Century RetrospectiveTanner MirrleesPart 2 –The News, War and PropagandaChapter 4 - Western News Media, Propaganda and Pretexts for Neoliberal WarOliver Boyd-BarrettChapter 5 – “RussiaGate”: The Construction of the EnemyGerald SussmanChapter 6 – The Great Game for EurAsia and the Skripal AffairOliver Boyd-BarrettChapter 7 - Propaganda, Manipulation and the Exercise of Imperial Power: From Media Imperialism to Informational ImperialismPiers RobinsonPart 3 – Hollywood, War and MilitainmentChapter 8 - Socialism by Stealth? Governmental Subvention and Hollywood Toby MillerChapter 9 - The US Embassy-Hollywood Complex: The Sony Pictures Hack and 21st century media ImperialismPaul MoodyChapter 10 – Dispatches from the Militainment EmpireRoger StahlChapter 11 - Global Executioner: Legitimizing Drone Warfare through Hollywood Movies Erin Steuter and Geoff MartinPart 4 –The Internet, Social Media and Platform ImperialismChapter 12 – Guarding Public Values in a Connective World: Challenges for Europe.José van DijckChapter 13 - Facebook’s Platform Imperialism: The Economics and Geopolitics of Social Media Dal Yong JinChapter 14 - New Global Music Distribution System, Same Old Linguistic Hegemony? Analyzing English on SpotifyChristof Demont-HeinrichChapter 15 – “Weaponizing” the Internet and World Wide Web, for Empire: Platforming Capitalism, Data-Veillance, Public Diplomacy and Cyber-WarfareTanner MirrleesPart 5 – Development Communication, Global Divides and Cultural ImperialismChapter 16 - Cultural Autonomy in the 1970s and Beyond: Toward Cultural JusticeCees HamelinkChapter 17 - Cultural Imperialism and Development Communication for Social ChangeMohan DuttaChapter 18 - Mapping Power in Women’s Empowerment Projects in Global DevelopmentKarin Gwinn WilkinsPart 6 - Rising Media Empires: The Case of ChinaChapter 19 – China: An Emerging Cultural ImperialistColin SparksChapter 20 – The Empire’s New Clothes: Political Priorities and Corporate Ambitions in China’s Drive for Global AscendencyGraham MurdochChapter 21 – Not (yet) The Chinese Century: The Endurance of the US Empire and its Cultural IndustriesTanner MirrleesContributor Bios