Publisher's Synopsis
Discussing the major trends, stakeholders, and global activities involved in international communication, this book provides new insights into the worldwide factors affecting media. This newly revised edition provides updates for all developments in media since 2002:most substantially for the war on terrorism, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Al Jazeera, and Arabic media systems. Utilizes numerous and diverse examples of media stakeholders, including CNN, AOL/Time Warner, the BBC, movies, the internet, and the music industry Offers a user–friendly balance of theoretical and empirical material Organized accessibly around two main theories: electronic colonialism and world–system theory Places emphasis on the history of the international communications debate Features engaging examples from media coverage of the war on terrorism to the birth of the iPod. Global Communication, Second Edition, is also accompanied by a fully updated online instructor′s manual at www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcphail
