Browsing by Author "IAMCR World Congress, Media and Global Divides"
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Bridging the Divide between the Press and Civic Society Civic Media Advocacy as “Media Movement” in Latin America
Waisbord, Silvio (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)The gap between the press and civic society has been a paramount concern for media research on Latin America. Press systems in the region have been historically dominated by states and markets. During the past decades, ... -
Building an Agenda for Media and Communication Research in Africa
Lugalambi, George W (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This article lays down a number of points that need to be reflected upon in building a research agenda for media and communication research in Africa. It resurrects some old questions about the identity of the field. It ... -
Communication, the Nexus of Class and Nation, and Global Divides Reflections on China’s Post-Revolutionary Experiences
Zhao, Yuezhi (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This paper locates the problematic of communication and global divide in the nexus of class and nation in the context of post-revolutionary China’s twisted developmental path and its world historical economic ascent in the ... -
Conversations with my Robot
Hamelink, Cees J (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06) -
Dead Ground Fallacies of Understanding Global Divides, Policy-Making and Communication
Salovaara-Moring, Inka (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This chapter addresses cultural production and global divides from a media geographer’s point of view by introducing ‘dead ground’ as its central concept. This concept is borrowed from strategic thinking, originally a ... -
From an Echo of the West to a Voice of Its Own? Sub-Saharan African Research under the Loophole
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Global Divides and Transnational Media Literacy
Eide, Elisabeth (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)The present article explores the challenges of global divides for media researchers through the example of a foreign reporter’s blog from an area of intense conflict in Pakistan, where he was threatened by religious ... -
Global Divides in Cosmographic Genres Charity, Solidarity and Different Explanations of Difference
Roosvall, Anna (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This chapter sets out to explore charity and solidarity approaches in three cosmographic genres: aid galas, foreign news, and documentaries about foreign nations. I argue that their nation-based ratio together with the ... -
Global Divides in Transnational Media Managing the Visibility of Suffering
Chouliaraki, Lilie (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)By empirically exploring variations in satellite news on human suffering, inlcuding the 2004 tsunami footage and the 2007 Burma demonstrations, this chapter argues that the symbolic power of trans-national broadcasting ... -
Maps and Mandalas, Division and Multiplication Media and Global Divides
Sreberny, Annabelle (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)In this plenary talk delivered to the IAMCR conference on “Global Divides” in Stockholm, July 2008, I explore a range of issues triggered by the very phrase “global divides”. I ask whether the world is divided and, if ... -
Media and the Global Divide A Bottom-up and Citizen Perspective
Tufte, Thomas (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)When addressing media and global divides, the focus of the problem is often on the overall global trends in media and cultural production – identifying current developments in different regions of the worlds, and illustrating ... -
Representing the Rise of the Rest as Threat Media and Global Divides
Pieterse, Jan Nederveen (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)Like a giant oil tanker, the world is turning. New growth poles of the world economy have been emerging in the south and east. Globalization once belonged to the west and now the tables are turning. We have entered the ... -
Telescopic Philanthropy, Emancipation and Development Communication Theory
Alhassan, Amin (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)Development communication theory can be framed as the rescue mission of the global north to save the global south from itself. It is in view of this that this paper asks: what does it mean to found the emancipation of ... -
The Poverty of Journalism and the Politics of Reporting Poverty Statistics in South Africa
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Unpacking Cultural Divides
Isar, Yudhishthir Raj (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This text is based on an introductory Keynote delivered by the author for a Plenary panel of Nordic researchers that took place during the 2008 ‘Media and Global Divides’ conference. Designed to provide an international ...