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Globalization and Media : Global Village of Babel by Jack Lule (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-101538144840
ISBN-139781538144848
eBay Product ID (ePID)13050396706
Product Key Features
Number of Pages234 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGlobalization and Media : Global Village of Babel
SubjectPolitical Process / Media & Internet, Media Studies, Globalization, Linguistics / General
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorJack Lule
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number4
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2020-947575
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsJack 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., Another superb edition of this wondrous resource for a global audience of students and scholars. Lule's writing, as always, is splendid--melodious, picturesque, and seamless. Reading this book was like having global vacations that unremittingly inspire deep learning and critical thinking about the role of media in globalization. This fourth edition is a welcome and timely update, with added voices reflecting the state of the media amid recent social and political events worldwide, including COVID-19 and Black Lives Matters.--Roselyn Du, California State University, Fullerton 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.--Yuezhi Zhao, Simon Fraser University; author of Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict Jack Lule's Globalization and Media has been the go-to basic text for all my International Communications students since I first taught the course. My students appreciate the accessible storytelling style of the book, a style that leads them to think critically about how media influences their lives and how they influence media.--Peter Laufer, University of Oregon, Another superb edition of this wondrous resource for a global audience of students and scholars. Lule's writing, as always, is splendid--melodious, picturesque, and seamless. Reading this book was like having global vacations that unremittingly inspire deep learning and critical thinking about the role of media in globalization. This fourth edition is a welcome and timely update, with added voices reflecting the state of the media amid recent social and political events worldwide, including COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter., Jack Lule's Globalization and Media has been the go-to basic text for all my International Communications students since I first taught the course. My students appreciate the accessible storytelling style of the book, a style that leads them to think critically about how media influences their lives and how they influence media., In this much updated book, 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 and processes of globalization. The writing is simply superb., Another superb edition of this wondrous resource for a global audience of students and scholars. Lule's writing, as always, is splendid--melodious, picturesque, and seamless. Reading this book was like having global vacations that unremittingly inspire deep learning and critical thinking about the role of media in globalization. This fourth edition is a welcome and timely update, with added voices reflecting the state of the media amid recent social and political events worldwide, including COVID-19 and Black Lives Matters., Another superb edition of wondrous resource for a global audience of students and scholars. Lule's writing, as always, is splendid--melodious, picturesque, and seamless. Reading this book was like having global vacations that unremittingly inspire deep learning and critical thinking about the role of media in globalization. This fourth edition is a welcome and timely update, with added voices reflecting the state of the media amid recent social and political events worldwide, including COVID-19 and Black Lives Matters.
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal302.23
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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 Village Babel 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: Anicca When 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 Media 5 "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 Nike Media, 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
SynopsisThe fully updated fourth edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding and shaping globalization. By breaking down the economic, cultural, and political impact of media, and through a rich set of case studies, Jack Lule describes a divided global village, its destiny shaped by strife.
LC Classification NumberP94.6.L845 2021
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