"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. "Owning the Olympics" tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University
From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games...
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. "Owning the Olympics" tests the possibilities and limits of the conce...
"Links" are among the most basic---and most unexamined---features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and the academy, "The Hyperlinked Society" addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of links change the way they approach their work, and how do these considerations in turn affect the ways that audiences consume news and entertainment? What role do economic and political considerations play in information producers' creation of links? How do...
"Links" are among the most basic---and most unexamined---features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and...
Making News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation's, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It presents a lively chronicle of months spent in the newsroom observing daily conversations, meetings, and journalists at work. We see Page One meetings, articles developed for online and print from start to finish, the creation of ambitious multimedia projects, and the ethical dilemmas posed by social media in the newsroom. Here, the reality of creating news in a 24/7 instant information environment clashes with the storied history of print...
Making News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation's, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It ...
Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, "Imagining the Global"reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and...
Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, "Imagining the Global"reflects on...
International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very internationalized. Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana s notion of international communication. At stake is the subject position of academic and cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid laws of human society with little regard for cultural values and variations seems to...
International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very internationalized. Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empi...
Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, "Imagining the Global"reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and...
Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, "Imagining the Global"reflects on...
