Because media education is, according to the editor, "largely a nationally bound and inward-looking area of academic inquiry", this book brings together scholars writing on the topic of internationalising media studies. As stated on the publisher's website: "The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) has profoundly affected the study of global media. At the same time, the globalization of media combined with the globalization of higher education means that the research and teaching of the subject faces immediate and profound challenges, not only as the subject of enquiry but also as the means by which researchers and students undertake their studies.

...[T]his collection of essays... aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit, including innovative research methodologies, taking account of regional and national specificities and pedagogic necessities warranted by the changing profile of students and researchers and unprecedented growth of media in non-Western world."

The four sections of contents are the following:
“Part I - Internationalizing media research
Part II - Broadening the field of media studies
Part III - Regional perspectives on internationalization
Part IV - Pedagogical parameters: internationalizing media syllabi”

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Email from Daya Thussu to The Communication Initiative on June 22 2009.