The Logics of Globalization: Case Studies in International Communication

Anandam P. Kavoori

doi:10.5771/9780739132524

Summary

This book presents the theoretical language and methodological tools needed for thinking through issues of global media representation. It brings students of international communication into a conversation about global culture and communication through the presentation of a conceptual language to discuss the 'logics of globalization' (i.e. nationalism, modernism, post-modernism/colonialism, capitalism and terrorism). Anandam Kavoori then uses this language to critically analyze various media texts. The choices of texts are eclectic-representing old and new media-and chosen for the wider 'logic' they help animate. Most importantly, they reorient the study of global media texts from the formal to the popular, examining film, music, gaming, cell phone, travel journalism, and performance texts. The book invites students to understand the complexity of global media representation-at the heart of which is the search for identity.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2009
Copyright Year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-2183-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-3252-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
Chapter 1. The Word and the World: Defining the IC Prism No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter 2. Singing in a (New) Nation: The Early Films of Raj Kapoor No access Pages 27 - 54
Chapter 3. Time to Kill: Gaming and Terrorism No access Pages 55 - 98
Chapter 4. Tracking the “Authentic”: World Music and the Global Postmodern No access Pages 99 - 138
Chapter 5. Playing with Postcoloniality: Four Moments in Indian Cricket No access Pages 139 - 170
Chapter 6. Consuming Technologies: The Discourse of Cell Phone Advertising in India No access Pages 171 - 188
Appendix A. Travel Journalism and the Logics of Globalization No access Pages 189 - 210
Appendix B. India Night in Georgia: Why the Dancing Diasporic Desi1 Men Cross-Dressed No access Pages 211 - 228
Index No access Pages 229 - 230
About the Author No access Pages 231 - 232