Globalization and Media

Jack Lule is professor of global studies and Iacocca Professor of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University. His books include Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication and Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism.

Jack Lule offers a lucid, truly engaging, and carefully balanced overview of key issues and cutting-edge debates on globalization and media. With fascinating stories, colorful tidbits, and witty analysis, the author skillfully unpacks the media's central and conflicting role in the multifaceted processes of globalization. The writing is simply superb.

• Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Organization 2 Global Village of Babel Chen Qiushi Wael Ghonim Martin Luther Oprah Winfrey No Globalization without Media Globalization and Media as Human Actions Kevin Carter: Pulitzer Prize, Then Suicide Premature Celebrations of Globalization Marshall McLuhan and the Global VillageBabel Global Village of Babel Ken Banks: Poverty? There’s an App for That Lu Guang: Documenting the Human Condition 3 Language and Metaphor: What We Talk about When We Talk about Globalization and Media The Battle of Seattle Globalization, Language, and Raymond Carver -Ization and Its Discontents Antiglobalization? Words Matter Impermanence and Change: AniccaWhen Did Globalization Begin? Metaphors of Globalization “Metaphors We Globalize By” A Definition of Globalization 4 The Role of Media in Globalization: A History From Drums to iPhones Out of Africa—with Media Technology and Social Change: The Debate Evolution of Media and Globalization Oral Communication Script The Printing Press Electronic Media Digital Media Once Again: No Globalization without Media5 “The Rise of the Global Imaginary”: Discord in the Global Village The Blue Marble Study of the Imaginary The Global Imaginary: The World as Imagined Community Global Imaginary to Global Village Regaining Babel The Technological Sublime Lewis Mumford The Pentagon of Power Conclusion: A Global Village of Babel 6 Media and Economic Globalization: Starving Children, Hannah Montana, Football, and the Bottom Billion Nestlé, Marketing, and an Infant Formula Controversy How to Sell Shoes: From Cobblers to NikeMedia, Marketing, and Myth: “Just Do It” Nestlé: Just Don’t Do It? Media Oligopoly Implications of Media Oligopoly: Is Big Bad? “Global Village or Global Pillage”? A Closer Look: The Walt Disney Company Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Fox, and Football WarnerMedia: From Time to CNN to AOL to AT&T No Media, No Capitalism, No Globalization No World News Tonight: The Demise of International Reporting Ignoring the Bottom Billion and the Megacity Mo Amin: A Spotlight on the Bottom Billion 7 Media and Political Globalization Killing Stories—and Journalists Media and Politics in the Global Village Killing Journalists: The World as War Zone The Beheading of Daniel Pearl UNESCO and Freedom of Expression Killing Stories to Save Journalists Killing Stories to Manufacture Consent News and the Rationales for War in Iraq Metaphors of War Metaphors Can Kill Facebook Revolution? Mohamed Bouazizi New Media and Social Media in the Global Village New Media, Malaysia, and the Case of Raja Petra 8 Media and Cultural Globalization: Black Lives Matter, Cartoon Killings, and Dismantled McDonald’s “I Can’t Breathe” Global Facts Take Local Form “Those Danish Cartoons” Local Cartoons, Global Riots Globalization and Culture: Three Possible Outcomes Cultural Difference: McDonald’s and “The Clash of Civilizations”? Cultural Convergence: McDonaldization or McWorld? Cultural Hybridity: McCurry and Glocalization Cultural Hybridity and Music: Omara Portuondo and Cuban Filin Cultural Globalization and China: TikTok to Tiananmen The Daily (and Historical) Negotiation of Local and Global 9 Conclusion: The Globalization of False Promises “Homo Homini Lupus” Roshaneh Zafar: Media, Microfinance, and Women Cell Phones: A Better World? Cell Phones—and Slaughter: Coltan Fulfilling the Promise of Globalization—and Media Index About the Author