New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

, by Semati, Mehdi; Alhassan, Amin; Brush, Heidi Marie; Debrix, François; H. Downing, John D.; Erni, John Nguyet; Evans, Michael Robert; Hasian, Marouf, Jr.; Jones, Clifford A.; Kraidy, Marwan M.; Nerone, John; Rockwell, Rick; Sayyid, S; Sosale, Sujatha; Wark,

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ISBN: 9780742530195 | 0742530191
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New Frontiers in International Communication Theory offers a wide-ranging assessment of the present state of the field of international communication and charts new directions for theory and research. It brings together renowned and emerging scholars who challenge the field to move beyond the limits of existing formulations, approaches, and trajectories, providing an alternative and a supplement to traditional approaches in analysis and study. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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Introduction: New Frontiers in International Communication

(16)

Mehdi Semati

Part I: Rethinking Problematics in International Communication

(72)

Mehdi Semati

1 Four Theories of the Press in Hindsight: Reflections on a Popular Model

(12)

John Nerone

2 Toward a Critical Genealogy of Communication, Development, and Social Change

(22)

Sujatha Sosale

3 Communication and the Postcolonial Nation-State: A New Political Economic Research Agenda

(16)

Amin Alhassan

4 Global AIDS, IT, and Critical Humanism: Reframing International Health Communication

(22)

John Nguyet Erni

Part II: The Global Vectors of Communication

(64)

Mehdi Semati

5 The Terror of the Image: International Relations and the Global Image Circuitry

(24)

Francois Debrix

6 The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual

117

(20)

McKenzie Wark

7 Empire, War, and Antiwar Media

137

(20)

John D.H. Downing

Part III: Models and Tools for Inquiry in International Communication

153

(74)

Mehdi Semati

8 Transfrontier Media, Law, and Cultural Policy in the European Union

157

(22)

Clifford A. Jones

9 Democratization and the Media: Reflections on the Central American Experience

179

(22)

Rick Rockwell

10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Ethnographic Research in International Communication Studies

201

(30)

Michael Robert Evans

Part IV: On the Political-Theoretical Horizons of International Communication

227

(66)

Mehdi Semati

11 Cells, Nets, and the Security State: Transnational Political Organizations and the Governing of the Internet

231

(16)

Heidi Marie Brush

12 From Culture to Hybridity in International Communication

247

(16)

Marwan M. Kraidy

13 Transnational Genome Debates and the Return of Eugenics

263

(16)

Marouf Hasian Jr.

14 Islamism and the Politics of Eurocentrism

279

(14)

S. Sayyid

Index

293

(10)

About the Editor and Contributors

303

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