The logics of globalization : studies in international communication / Anandam Kavoori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kavoori, Anandam P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects--India--Case studies.

Mass media.

Popular culture--India--Case studies.

Popular culture.

Globalization--India--Case studies.

Globalization.

Mass media--Social aspects.

India.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

This book presents the theoretical language and methodological tools needed for thinking through issues of global media representation. It brings students 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, postmodernism/colonialism, capitalism, and terrorism). Anandam Kavoori uses this language to critically interrogate 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 films, music, gaming, cell phones, travel journalism, and performance.

Contents:

The word and the world : defining the IC prism

Singing in a (new) nation : the early films of Raj Kapoor

Time to kill : gaming and terrorism

Tracking the "authentic" : world music and the global postmodern

Playing with postcoloniality : four moments in Indian cricket

Consuming technologies : the discourse of cell phone advertising in India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739121832

0739121839

9780739121849

0739121847

9780739132524

0739132520

OCLC:

244627969