This reader brings together texts in media and communication from traditional and more recent scholarship. Readings are drawn from an international range of scholars and organised to reflect the growing internationalisation of the field, with sections covering aspects of global communication. In addition to the academic readings, policy documents are included to demonstrate the development of the political, economic, and technological infrastructure that underpins the global system of media and communication.

Contents include the following:

Part 1: Infrastructure for International Communication

• Satellites and Global Communication - Joseph Pelton
• The Global Network Society - Manuel Castells
•  Impact of WTO on Global Communication - Eli Noam
• Global Media Policy - Marc Raboy 

Part 2: Theoretical Terrains

• Media and Modernization - Daniel Lerner
• Communication and Post-Colonialism - Raka Shome & Radha Hegde
• Development Communication - Srinivas Melkote
• Communication and Digital Capitalism - Dan Schiller

Part 3: Global Media Systems

• Media Imperialism - Oliver Boyd-Barrett
• Homogenizing Media Cultures? - Daniel Hallin & Poulo Mancini
• The Global Media System - Robert McChesney
• Contra-flow in Global Media - Daya Thussu
• Anglo-American Media in Decline? - Jeremy Tunstall

Part 4: Dominant and Alternative Discourses

• Cultural Imperialism - Herbert Schiller
• Communication and Cultural Proximity - Joseph Straubhaar
• The Islamic Internet - Lina Khatib
• Alternative Media - John Downing

Part 5: Communication and Power

• Global Communication as Ideology - Armand Mattelart
• Communication as Propaganda - Harold Lasswell
• Soft Power - Joseph Nye
• Media and Sovereignty - Monroe Price

Part 6: Cultures of Global Communication

• Global Media Consumption - Elihu Katz & Tamar Leibes
• Disjunctures of Global Culture - Arjun Appadurai
• Cultures of Diasporic Media - Karim H. Karim
• Decentred Globalization - Kochi Iwabuchi
• Hybridity and Globalization - Marwan Kraidy
• Global Creative Convergence - Mark Deuze

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Email from Daya Thussu to The Communication Initiative on August 21 2009.