Communicating the nation : national topographies of global media landscapes / Anna Roosvall & Inka Salovaara-Moring (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roosvall, Anna, 1969-

Salovaara-Moring, Inka.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics in mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Mass media and culture.

Culture and globalization.

Identity (Psychology) and mass media.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Göteborg : Nordicom, 2010.

Summary:

Because the nation has been under-theorized in global media studies while still serving as an un-problematized unit of analysis and also because it is important to understand the role of media in the reproduction of the nation, this collection from the field of media studies focuses on theorizing the nation and its meanings, particularly in relation to globalization trajectories, and on empirical studies of media that do not take the nation for granted as a simple, unproblematic category. Twelve contributions discuss such topics as nostalgic performances of Danish nationhood in the media; the mediation of death and the imagination of national community in the context of a Greek news broadcast of the death of a Greek-Cypriot man in the buffer zone of Cyprus; nationalism as a form of commodity branding; the role of media in consolidating the hegemonic power of certain nations; topographies of post-communism, nation, and media; the war in Chechnya as a media event in the service of reconstructing the Russian empire after the collapse of the Soviet Union; the relationship between Hollywood, the US military state, and nationalism; the lost value of remembering and media coverage of the US war in Iraq; representations of the "self" and the "other" in news and documentary media; the impact of national economic and cultural interests in the international co-production of television programs; the relationship between media globalization and national news agendas; and comparative national agendas in end-of-year reviews of news photographs in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Anna Roosvall & Inka Salovaara-Moring

I. The making of nations

Methodological inter-nationalism in comparative media research : flow studies in international communication / Terhi Rantanen

The nation as media event / Britta Timm Knudsen

The mediation of death and the imagination of national community / Lilie Chouliaraki

Between community and commodity : nationalism and nation branding / Göran Bolin & Per Ståhlberg

II. Nations and empires revisited

The future is a foreign place : topographies of post-communism, nation and media / Inka Salovaara-Moring

Imperial glory is back? : retelling the Russian national narrative by representation and communication / Ivan Zassoursky

Holy trinity : nation Pentagon, screen / Toby Miller

Vox Americana : why the media forget, and why it is important to remember / Andrew Calabrese

III. National selves and others

The national vs. the global : producing national history in a global television era / Tamar Ashuri

National television news of the world : challenges and consequences / Kristina Riegert

Image-nation : the national, cultural and the global in foreign news slide-shows / Anna Roosvall

The disciplined imaginary : the nation rejuvenated for the global condition / Anu Kantola

The authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789189471962

9189471962

OCLC:

641459029