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International Media Studies

Author: Divya McMillin

International Media Studies is a bold introduction to the field that focuses on a de-centering of media epistemology to represent a more thorough world-view.

• A comprehensive textbook exploring the current state of media studies as it is being practised across the world

• Takes discussions about media studies beyond other textbooks, by situating the subject firmly in an international context appropriate to the globalized, 21st century

• Surveys our reception of a wide variety of media content and formats including television, magazines, fiction, newspapers, and popular music

• Considers both theoretical and much-needed ethnographic perspectives on media studies

• Showcases global and local media patterns in a variety of countries around the world, including examples from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xii
Introduction     1
From International Communication to Media Globalization     8
Mapping the Book     14
The Fixity of Nation in International Media Studies     18
The Modern Nation in All its Glory     19
The Legacy of the Modern Nation     26
Early Research in International Communication     28
The Critical Turn     34
Connecting Structure and Culture in International Media Studies     47
The Culturalist and Structuralist Paradigms of Cultural Studies     49
Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies     51
The Postcolonial Approach to International Media Studies     54
Reviving the Pure Nation: Media as Postcolonial Savior     66
Defining the Third World     69
Mass Media as Extensions of Colonial Administrative Power     71
Mass Media as Nation Builders and Postcolonial Saviors     77
The Telenovela for National Development     89
Restoring the Female Nation     91
Rescuing the Brown Woman     93
Disciplining the Peasant and the Prostitute     95
Competing Networks, Hybrid Identities     101
Star TV and TransnationalMedia Networks     104
Policing the Skies     108
Hybridity and the Globalization of Television Formats     111
Grounding Theory: Audiences and Subjective Agency     134
International Audience Studies     135
Contributions of Anthropology to International Media Studies     143
Postcolonial Interventions in Audience Research     147
Differences between Western and Non-Western Viewing Experiences     150
Agency, Subjectivity, and Subjective Agency     157
Audience Agency and Resistance     158
Limited Agency and Subjectivity     169
Theorizing Audience Agency and Limited Subjectivity     176
Reconfiguring the Global in International Media Studies     179
Expanding International Media Studies to Non-"Hot Spots"     185
Interrogating Notions of Fluidity of Audiences and Media     186
Moving Away from the Nation as a Unit of Analysis     190
Moving Away from the Centrality of Media within Society     191
Extending Analyses beyond a Critique of Cultural Imperialism     193
Historicizing International Media Studies     194
Engaging in Comparative Research     195
Relating Research to Activism     195
The Politics of International Media Research     202
Negotiating the Complexities of Fieldwork within Academia     204
Negotiating Power in the Field     207
The Politics of Representing Ethnographic Research     209
Challenges to Activist Research     210
Criticisms of Critical Research     212
International Media and the Viability of the Nation-State     215
Notes     222
References     231
Index     262