Kai Hafez – författare

Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, as in many other books, Kai Hafez analyses the degree to which media globalization is really taking place. Do we have enough evidence to show that there is a linear and accelerated move towards transnationalization in the media?

All too often the empirical data presented seems rather more anecdotal than representative. Many transborder media phenomena are overestimated and taken out of the context of locally and nationally oriented mainstream media processes all over the world. The inherent danger is that a central paradigm of the social sciences, rather than bearing scholarly substance, will turn out to be a myth and even a sometimes dangerously ideological tool.

Based on a theoretical debate of media globalization, the work discusses most major fields of media development, including foreign reporting, satellite TV, film, internet, foreign broadcasting, media and migration, media policy and media economy. As an important new contribution to timely debates, The Myth of Media Globalization will be essential and provocative reading for students and scholars alike.

This book provides a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical overview of the disparate achievements and shortcomings of global communication.

This exceptionally ambitious and systematic project takes a critical perspective on the globalization of communication. Uniquely, it sets media globalization alongside a plethora of other globalized forms of communication, ranging from the individual to groups, civil society groupings, commercial enterprises and political formations. The result is a sophisticated and impressive overview of globalized communication across various facets, assessing the phenomena for the extent to which they live up to the much-hyped claims of globalization’s potential to create a globally interdependent society. The setbacks of globalization, such as right-wing populism and religious fundamentalism, can only be understood if the shortcomings of global communication are taken more seriously.

Covering all types of cross-border global communication in media, political and economic systems, civil societies, social media and lifeworlds of the individual, this unique book is invaluable for students and researchers in media, communication, globalization and related areas.

This book provides a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical overview of the disparate achievements and shortcomings of global communication.

This exceptionally ambitious and systematic project takes a critical perspective on the globalization of communication. Uniquely, it sets media globalization alongside a plethora of other globalized forms of communication, ranging from the individual to groups, civil society groupings, commercial enterprises and political formations. The result is a sophisticated and impressive overview of globalized communication across various facets, assessing the phenomena for the extent to which they live up to the much-hyped claims of globalization’s potential to create a globally interdependent society. The setbacks of globalization, such as right-wing populism and religious fundamentalism, can only be understood if the shortcomings of global communication are taken more seriously.

Covering all types of cross-border global communication in media, political and economic systems, civil societies, social media and lifeworlds of the individual, this unique book is invaluable for students and researchers in media, communication, globalization and related areas.

Der politische Islam - eine »terroristische« oder »faschistische« Bewegung? Entgegen dieser im Westen vielfach verbreiteten Wahrnehmung räumt der Band dem politischen Islam trotz aller Auswüchse als radikale Opposition eine zentrale Position auch in Prozessen der Demokratisierung und Modernisierung ein.Der bislang in dieser Konsequenz verweigerte Vergleich mit der ebenfalls nicht widerspruchsfreien politischen Geschichte des Westens zeigt nicht nur erstaunliche Parallelen, sondern die tiefe Ambivalenz von Gefahren - aber auch Chancen -, die der politische Islam mit sich bringt. Für die Nahost- und Islampolitik des Westens kann es dann um nicht weniger gehen als um eine fundamentale Wende hin zu einer neuen Entspannungspolitik.

Der Umgang mit dem Islam stellt die fundamentale Bewährungsprobe für die liberale Verfasstheit der westlichen Gesellschaften dar. Kai Hafez nimmt die erste umfassende Bestandsaufnahme der Gleichstellung, Integration und Anerkennung des Islams in Deutschland und Europa vor. Sein differenzierter Blick zeigt: Während sich die politischen Systeme langsam auf die Anwesenheit von Muslimen einstellen, bleibt die »liberale Gesellschaft« oft weit hinter ihren Ansprüchen zurück. Die »Sarrazin-Debatte« und rassistische Morde sind nur die Spitze tiefer liegender Unfähigkeiten vieler Europäer, die Globalisierung in ihre Lebenswelt zu integrieren.Um die Demokratie zu stützen, bedarf es nicht weniger als einer Neuerfindung der »liberalen Gesellschaft«. Nicht nur Politik und Bürger, sondern auch die Institutionen der Medien, Wissenschaft, Schule und Kirchen müssen sich rundum erneuern.