Dewesternizing media studies communication and society 1st edition. Pdf indian cinema as a model for dewesternizing media. We apply their work to five disparate countriesmexico, zimbabwe, new zealand, china, and canadaand the entrance of a transnational corporationviacom as represented by nickelodeoninto those countries. Dewesternizing media studies 1st edition james curran. Dewesternizing media studies by curran, james ebook. Unfortunately, none of them drawing on the field of communication sciences. Karin wahljorgensen is reader in the cardiff school of journalism, media, and cultural stud. How is globalization changing both society and the media. This article examines the phenomenon as an analytically relevant example of a material understanding of religion. Dewesternizing communicationsocial science research. It draws upon critiques of the applicability of media systems theory to nonwestern media systems to ask whether the grounded study of media systems reveals additional. In a series of case studies from asia, africa, north and south america, europe, the middle east and australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. In dewesternizing media studies, curran and park 2000 offer a typology to examine media policies and systems. Dewesternizing communication research altering questions and changing frameworks. The field of media studies has long been dominated by normative theories rooted in western norms, values and traditions. Media, conflict and democratisation mecodem issn 20574002. It then offers a critical reading of a popular sakawa video series and contrasts its thematic perspectives with the reactions of some ghanaian political leaders to the possible motivations for the. Media and the decline of liberal corporatism in britain james curran and colin leys. Dewesternisation can be understood as an ongoing process and intellectual shift.
Riginal rticle global dewesternization trend in media. This lack of studies is arguably due to the extensive discussions around two inherent dilemmas for the field which, across the board, affect how ebs are conceived. Indian cinema as a model for dewesternizing media studies. Media and popular culture in postmao china charlene makley, professor of anthropology, reed college chinas open door policies and economic reforms since the death of mao zedong and the end of the cultural revolution have radically altered the states ability to. Available on nyu classes under resources indicated in schedule with asterisk. The handbook of journalism studies kerala media academy. Dewesternizing media studies communication and society. A reassessment, communication theory on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. As the field is developing and theories have become increasingly difficult to apply on nonwestern and especially nondemocratic societies, a deconstruction of western hegemony seems inevitable and a need for dewesternising media studies has arisen. Modernization, globalization, and the powerful state. These case studies from asia, africa, europe, north and south america, the middle east and australia explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national. Dewesternizing the subject of study also refers to the analysis of communication phenomena that are not contained by specific countries and regions of the world, namely, events, processes, and trends that transcend conventional geopolitical boundaries. A comparative study of indian philosophical and western cultural theories article pdf available december 2012 with 800 reads. A number of theoretical works and case studies have been summarized in order to present a comparison between both academic.
Drotner eds international handbook of children, media and culture. The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, dewesternization, and differentiation. Th e long period of current isolation of russian researchers from an international context due to political reasons has come to an end. Dewesternizing media studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. Browse mass media ebooks to read online or download in epub or pdf format on your mobile device and pc. A comparative study of indian philosophical theories and western cultural theories. The need to dewesternize or decolonize media studies and research has been echoed recurrently in asian media studies circles for over two decades, from the pioneering works of chu and cheng 1978, chu 1988, dissanayake 1988 through james curran and myungjin parks seminal work, dewesternizing media studies 2000 to the recent volume edited by georgette wang, dewesternizing. Georgette wang dewesternizing communication research. In these developing countries, some of the worst human rights violators are nationstates.
Media regulation and the international expansion of. As such, the handbook of journalism studies is a musthave resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe. Sakawa indexes a cyberfraud practice in ghana allegedly linked with occult rituals. The struggle for press freedom and emergence of unelected media power in south korea. In curran and parks dewesternizing media studies, cosmopolitanism seems to be an ineffective analyzing tool when one looks at the reality of the nonwestern media curran and park, 1999. Moving from diversity to transformation in communication. Results show that studies dealing with media and culture do not systematically define the concept of culture. Media systems and cultural coordinates stuart cunningham and terry flew pt. This thesis examines whether and how an enhancement can be effected in the depth and accuracy with which media systems theory meets its proclaimed objective of understanding and describing the behaviour of media systems. Yoon kyung media and popular culture korean studies. It aimed to contribute to a broadening of media theory and understanding in a way that takes account of the experience of countries outside the. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national or regional focus.
At a time of severe political, economic, environmental, security, technological, and identitarian challenges, global media studies can make important contributions to an improved understanding of our current situation. Why the old models from east and west wont do any more colin sparks. Dewesternisation media, conflict and democratisation. Between the rock of state and the hard place of the market silvio waisbord. Finally, the dewesternizing of media studies should not be solely an attempt to introduce japanese audiences to the western literature on media and to construct a unique model of japanese audiences by comparison in terms of the dichotomy between the west and the rest hall, 1992. Media and popular culture in postmao china charlene. Dewesternizing film studies aims to consider what form a challenge to the enduring vision of film as a medium and film studies as a discipline modelled on western ideologies, theoretical and historical frameworks, critical perspectives as well as institutional and artistic practices, might take today. Buy dewesternizing media studies communication and society 1 by curran, james, park, myungjin isbn. New york university department of media, culture, and communication media and global communication mccue 0 course description this course seeks to cover the landscape in contemporary theorizing and research on cultural. Since its us launch in 1979, nickelodeon has become a dominant. However, it is increasingly argued that media systems will assimilate in the course of globalisation, making a comparison based on nationstates redundant blum 2005.
Dewesternizing film studies saer maty ba, will higbee. Media systems depend strongly on their political, economic, and legal environments. Dewesternization and decolonization in media studies. This pathbreaking book moves beyond critiquing westerncentrism in media and communication studies by examining where eurocentrism has come from, how is it reflected in the study of media and communication, what. Dewesternizing media studies edited by james curran and myungjin park british cinema in the fifties christine geraghty ill effects the media violence debate, second edition edited by martin barker and julian petley. Alongside this proliferation of research output from outside of the. Sakawa rituals and cyberfraud in ghanaian popular video. Internationalizing international communication on jstor. The predicament of media practitioners in such a situation, as well as those wishing to understand african media practice through media theory, is obvious. As willems 2014 writes, a higher degree of selfreflexivity among media and communication scholars in the west about their own potential complicity in the marginalization of knowledges from elsewhere could be a start towards a more pluriversal and truly global field of media and communication studies. Special needs students who have any special needs which may. Between the rock of the state and the hard place of the market. In this piece, i will address the latter issue with reference to the aim of the dewesternisation of media studies from my ethnographic research on japanese engagement with media and ict. James curran and myungjin parks 2000dewesternizing media studiesoffered an eloquent, muchneeded call to expand the geographical and intellectual frontiers of communication and media studies.
This study examines the way culture has been researched in media studies and suggests how critical intercultural communication could contribute to the field. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen west european and north american democracies, hallin and mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. Global dewesternization trend in media studies and russian journalism theory sergey g. Dewesternizing media studies dewesternizing media studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. They also confront the limitations of conventional media and globalization theory in understanding these relationships. There have been seismic shifts in what constitutes the media in recent years with. The definition of the term is not clearcut, as it currently comprises a wide range. The most prominent call for dewesternizing media studies goes back to curran and park who, in the early 2000s, encouraged a western academic community to revise and reevaluate their theories, epistemologies, methods, and empirical research approaches, especially in research targeting the global south. A volume in the international communication association handbook series. Strong emphasis has been put on representations of minorities in media1 and their potential biases,2 minoritylanguage media3 and ethnic media.
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