Cultural Diversity and Global Media: The Mediation of Difference

✍ Scribed by Eugenia Siapera(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• 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 perspecive
• Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the media
• Assumes 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 diversity
• Explores media ‘moments’ of production, representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on their shifting roles and boundaries
• Examines 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 communication
• Contains 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.

Content:
Chapter 1 (Re)thinking Cultural Diversity and the Media (pages 1–13):
Chapter 2 Theorizing the Nation (pages 14–28):
Chapter 3 Varieties of Multiculturalism (pages 29–45):
Chapter 4 Theories of Multiculturalism (pages 46–59):
Chapter 5 Media Theories and Cultural Diversity (pages 60–77):
Chapter 6 Media Production and Diversity (pages 78–93):
Chapter 7 Minority and Diasporic Media (pages 94–110):
Chapter 8 Theories of Representation (pages 111–130):
Chapter 9 Regimes of Representation (pages 131–148):
Chapter 10 Self?Representations of Cultural Diversity (pages 149–164):
Chapter 11 Audiences and Cultural Diversity (pages 165–182):
Chapter 12 Cultural Diversity Online (pages 183–197):