Globalization and media : global village of Babel

Author(s)

• Lule, J. (Jack)

Bibliographic Information

Globalization and media : global village of Babel

Jack Lule

（Globalization / series editor, Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver）

Rowman & Littlefield, c2015

2nd ed

• : cloth
• : pbk

Other Title

Globalization & media

Note

Includes index

Previous ed. published 2011

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The fully updated second edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, Jack Lule convincingly shows that globalization could not have occurred without media. From earliest times, humans have used media to explore, settle, and globalize their world. In our day, media has made the world progressively "smaller" as nations and cultures come into increasing contact. Decades ago Marshall McLuhan prophesied that media technology would transform the world into a "global village." Slowly, fitfully, his vision is being fulfilled. The global village, however, is not the blissful utopia that McLuhan predicted. Nor, in a more modern formulation, is the world flat, with playing fields leveled and opportunities for all. Instead, Lule argues, globalization and media are combining to create a divided world of gated communities and ghettos, borders and boundaries, suffering and surfeit, beauty and decay, surveillance and violence. By breaking down the economic, cultural, and political impact of media, and through a rich set of case studies from around the globe, the author describes a global village of Babel-invoking the biblical town punished for its vanity by seeing its citizens scattered, its language confounded, and its destiny shaped by strife.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction: Global Village of Babel Wael Ghonim Martin Luther Oprah Winfrey No Globalization without Media Globalization and Media as Human Actions Kevin Carter: Pulitzer Prize, Then Suicide Premature Celebrations of Globalization Marshall McLuhan and the Global Village Babel Global Village of Babel Ken Banks: Poverty? There's an App for That Lu Guang: Documenting the Human Condition Chapter Two: Language and Metaphor: What We Talk about When We Talk about Globalization and Media The Battle of Seattle Globalization, Language, and Raymond Carver -Ization and Its Discontents Antiglobalization? Words Matter Impermanence and Change: Anicca When Did Globalization Begin? Metaphors of Globalization "Metaphors to Globalize By" A Definition of Globalization Chapter Three: The Role of Media in Globalization: A History From Bongos to iPhones Out of Africa-with Media Technology and Social Change: The Debate Evolution of Media and Globalization Oral Communication Script The Printing Press Electronic Media Digital Media Once Again: No Globalization without Media Chapter Four: "The Rise of the Global Imaginary": The Global Village The Blue Marble Study of the Imaginary The Global Imaginary: The World as Imagined Community Global Imaginary to Global Village Regaining Babel The Technological Sublime Lewis Mumford The Pentagon of Power Conclusion: A Global Village of Babel Chapter Five: Media and Economic Globalization: Starving Children, Hannah Montana, Football, and the Bottom Billion Nestle, Marketing, and an Infant Formula Controversy How to Sell Shoes: From Cobblers to Nike Media, Marketing, and Myth: "Just Do It" Nestle: Just Don't Do It? Media Oligopoly Implications of Media Oligopoly: Is Big Bad? "Global Village or Global Pillage"? A Closer Look: The Walt Disney Company Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Fox, and Football Time Warner: From Life to CNN to AOL No Media, No Capitalism, No Globalization No World News Tonight: The Demise of International Reporting Ignoring the Bottom Billion and the Megacity Mo Amin: A Spotlight on the Bottom Billion Chapter Six: Media and Political Globalization: Killing Stories-and Journalists Media and Politics in the Global Village Killing Journalists: The World as War Zone The Beheading of Daniel Pearl UNESCO and Freedom of Expression Killing Stories to Save Journalists Killing Stories to Manufacture Consent News and the Rationales for War in Iraq Metaphors of War Metaphors Can Kill Facebook Revolution? Mohamed Bouazizi New Media and Social Media in the Global Village New Media, Malaysia, and the Case of Raja Petra Chapter Seven: Media and Cultural Globalization: Cartoon Killings and Dismantled McDonald's "Those Danish Cartoons" Local Cartoons, Global Riots Globalization and Culture: Three Possible Outcomes Cultural Difference: McDonald's and "The Clash of Civilizations? Cultural Convergence: McDonaldization or McWorld? Cultural Hybridity: McCurry and Glocalization Cultural Hybridity and Music: Omara Portuondo and Cuban Filin Cultural Globalization and China: "The Great Firewall" and Tiananmen The Daily (and Historical) Negotiation of Local and Global Chapter Eight: Conclusion: The Globalization of False Promises "Homo Homini Lupus" Roshaneh Zafar: Media, Microfinance, and Women Cell Phones: A Better World? Cell Phones-and Slaughter: Coltan Fulfilling the Promise of Globalization-and Media Index About the Author

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Details

• NCID: BB19588022
• ISBN:
  • 9781442244573
  • 9781442244580
• LCCN: 2015010141
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lanham
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 200 p.
• Size: 23-24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P94.6
  • DC23 : 302.23
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mass media and globalization
  • LCSH : Culture and globalization
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA64233137