Internationalizing "international communication" / Chin-Chuan Lee, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Jinquan, 1946-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

New media world

The new media world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication, International.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very "Internationalized." Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of international communication. At stake is the "subject position" of academic and cultural inquiers: Who gets to ask what kind of question? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid "laws" of human society with little regard for cultural values and variations seems to be running out of steam. Mary lines of intellectual development are reckoning with the important dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjective consciousness. In Internationalizing "International communcation," Lee and other argue that we must reject both America-writ-large views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural incompatibility or even cultural superiority. They point of departure for internationalizing "international communication" must be precisely the opposity of parochialism-namely, a spirit of cosmopolitanism. Scholars Worldwide have a moral responsibility to foster global vision and mutual understanding, which forms, metaphorically, symphonic harmony made of cacophonic sounds. Book jacket.

Contents:

International communication research: critical reflections and a new point of departure / Chin-Chuan Lee

Window shopping: on internationalizing "international communication" / Elihu Katz

Beyond Lazarsfeld: international communication research and its production of knowledge / Tsan-Kuo Chang

Beyond modernization and the four theories of the press / Jan Servaes

Professional models in journalism: between homogenization and diversity / Paolo Mancini

Conditions of capital: global media in local contexts / Michael Curtin

The enduring strength of Hollywood: the "imperial adventure" genre and Avatar / Jaap van Ginneken

Resurrecting the imperial dimension in international communication / Colin Sparks

De-Westernization and cosmopolitan media studies / Silvio Waisbord

Local experiences, cosmopolitan theories: on cultural relevance in international communication research / Chin-Chuan Lee

Theorizing media production as a quasi-autonomous field: a reassessment of China News studies / Judy Polumbaum

Translation, communication, and East-West understanding / Zhang Longxi

Public spheres, fields, networks: Western concepts for a de-Westernizing world / Rodney Benson

Cosmopolitanism and international communication: understanding civil society actors / Peter Dahlgren

Postcolonial visual culture: arguments from India / Arvind Rajagopal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472120789

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access