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Diasporas and diplomacy : cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) / edited by Marie Gillespie and Alban Webb.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- CRESC
- Culture, economy and the social
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- BBC World Service.
- International broadcasting--Great Britain--History.
- International broadcasting.
- Mass media--Audiences.
- Mass media.
- Radio in propaganda--Great Britain--History.
- Radio in propaganda.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterized the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet.A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcastin
- Contents:
- pt. 1. National interests with a global reach : projection, persuasion and intonation
- pt. 2. Cultures of diplomacy in the post-war Middle East and Asia
- pt. 3. Corporate cosmopolitanism and the global conversation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-44864-0
- 1-283-91931-1
- 0-203-12515-0
- 1-136-44865-9
- 9780203125151
- OCLC:
- 823389955
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