Diasporas and diplomacy : cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012)
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Diasporas and diplomacy : cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012)
(Culture, economy and the social)
Routledge, 2014, c2013
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterized the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet.
A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcasting relating to:
colonialism and corporate cosmopolitanism
diasporic and national identities
public diplomacy and international relations
broadcasters and audiences
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and anthropology, media and cultural studies, journalism, history, politics, international relations, as well as of research methods that cross the boundaries between the Social Sciences and Humanities. It will also appeal to broadcast journalists and practioners of strategic communication.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Introduction: Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the Bbc World Service 1932-2012 Part I: National Interests with a Global Reach: Projection, Persuasion and Intonation 1. 'It Is a Real Joy to Get Listening of Any Kind from the Homeland': BBC Radio and British Diasporic Audiences in the 1930s 2. The Colonization of the BBC: Diasporic Britons At The BBC External Services, c.1932-1956 3. 'Frau Wernicke' at the BBC: Wartime Satire and Propaganda 4. Les Francais Parlent Aux Francais: Voices from London on the Persecution of the Jews 5. The BBC Polish Section and the Reporting of Polish Solidarity, 1980-83 Part II: Cultures of Diplomacy in the Post-War Middle East and Asia 6. The BBC Arabic Service's Dilemmatic Triangle: Competing Elites, Conflicting Priorities, Contested Media Strategies 7. The BBC World Service - From Wartime Propaganda to Public Diplomacy: The Case of Iran 8. The BBC in South Asia: From the End of Empire to the Cold War 9. Language, Nationhood and Diaspora at the BBC Urdu Service 1940-2010 10. Diaspora Calling the Homeland? The BBC Persian Service, Cosmopolitanism and Music Listening in Iran Part III: Corporate Cosmopolitanism and the Global Conversation 11. Communication for Development and Public Diplomacy: Insights from an Afghan Radio Drama 12. What Kind of Global Conversation? Participation, Democratic Deepening and Public Diplomacy through BBC World Service Online Forums: An Examination of Mediated Global Talk about Religion and Politics 13. Discussions on BBC Chinese Have Your Say Forums: National Identity and International Broadcasting in the Interactive Media Era
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