Cultural Diversity and Global Media: The Mediation of Difference

✍ Scribed by Eugenia Siapera

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism.Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the media from a global perspeciveExplores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the mediaAssumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity, which critically combines elements of previous theories in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the media and cultural diversityExplores media ‘moments’ of production, representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on their shifting roles and boundariesExamines separately the role of the internet, which is linked to many changes in patterns of media production, representation and to increased possibilities for diasporic and transnational communicationContains pedagogical features that enable readers to understand and critically engage with the material, and draws upon and reviews an extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference tool.

✦ Table of Contents

Cultural Diversity and Global Media......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
1.1 The Crises of Multiculturalism......Page 9
1.2 The Mediation of Cultural Diversity......Page 13
1.3 The Structure of the Book......Page 16
2.1 Theories of the Nation......Page 22
2.2 A Word on Globalization......Page 33
2.3 Conclusions......Page 34
3.1 A Typology of European Multiculturalism......Page 37
3.2 Multiculturalism in Immigration Countries: US and Canada......Page 44
3.3 Constitutively Different: India and Nigeria......Page 49
3.4 Conclusions......Page 52
4.1 Multicultural Dilemmas......Page 54
4.2 Essentialism or Fluidity?......Page 55
4.3 Universalism or Particularism?......Page 59
4.4 Recognition or Redistribution?......Page 62
4.5 Conclusions......Page 66
5 Media Theories and Cultural Diversity......Page 68
5.1 Socio-Psychological Approaches to Media......Page 69
5.2 Medium Theory......Page 72
5.3 Political-Economic Theories of the Media......Page 74
5.4 Socio-Cultural Approaches to the Media......Page 78
5.5 Mediation: The Difference Media Make......Page 80
5.6 Conclusions......Page 83
6.1 Media Production and Mediation......Page 86
6.2 Media Corporations......Page 87
6.3 Media Organizations and Media Logics......Page 89
6.4 Media Workers......Page 93
6.5 Conclusions......Page 100
7.2 Issues of Terminology......Page 102
7.3 Theorizing the Role(s) of Diasporic Media......Page 105
7.4 Diasporic Media: a Typology......Page 110
7.5 The Politics of Diasporic Media......Page 114
7.6 Conclusions......Page 118
8.1 The Work of Representation......Page 119
8.2 Stereotyping: the Cognitive Aspects of Representation......Page 120
8.3 Framing and Discourse: a First Link to Ideology......Page 124
8.4 Semiosis, Discourse, and Representation: an Historical Analysis......Page 128
8.5 The Performative Force of Representation......Page 132
8.6 Conclusions: Representation and Mediation......Page 135
9.1 The Multiplicity of Representations......Page 139
9.2 The Racist Regime of Representation......Page 140
9.3 The Domesticated Regime of Representation......Page 147
9.4 The Regime of Commodification......Page 151
9.5 Conclusions......Page 154
10.1 Representational Dilemmas......Page 157
10.2 The Essentialist Regime of Representation......Page 158
10.3 The Alternative Regime of Representation......Page 165
10.4 Conclusions......Page 172
11.1 What Do People Do with the Media?......Page 173
11.2 Audience Reception of Mediated Cultural Diversity......Page 174
11.3 Ethno-Cultural Groups as Audiences......Page 178
11.4 Media Consumption and Identity......Page 184
11.5 Right to Reply: How Can Audiences Respond?......Page 185
11.6 Conclusions......Page 190
12.1 The Difference the Internet Makes......Page 191
12.2 Network Society and Cultural Diversity......Page 192
12.3 Mediation of Cultural Diversity Internet Style......Page 195
12.4 Conclusions......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 206
Index......Page 221