Globalization and media : global village of Babel / Jack Lule.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lule, Jack, 1954- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and globalization.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

2 Global Village of Babel p. 5

Chen Qiushi p. 5

Wael Ghonim p. 6

Martin Luther p. 8

Oprah Winfrey p. 9

No Globalization without Media p. 10

Globalization and Media as Human Actions p. 12

Kevin Carter: Pulitzer Prize, Then Suicide p. 13

Premature Celebrations of Globalization p. 13

Marshall McLuhan and the Global Village p. 15

Babel p. 16

Global Village of Babel p. 17

Ken Banks: Poverty? There's an App for That p. 19

Lu Guang: Documenting the Human Condition p. 20

3 Language and Metaphor: What We Talk about When We Talk about Globalization and Media p. 25

The Battle of Seattle p. 25

Globalization, Language, and Raymond Carver p. 27

Ization and Its Discontents p. 29

Antiglobalization? Words Matter p. 31

Impermanence and Change: Anicca p. 33

When Did Globalization Begin? p. 34

Metaphors of Globalization p. 35

"Metaphors We Globalize By" p. 43

A Definition of Globalization p. 44

4 The Role of Media in Globalization: A History p. 51

From Drums to iPhones p. 51

Out of Africa-with Media p. 52

Technology and Social Change: The Debate p. 54

Evolution of Media and Globalization p. 57

Oral Communication p. 58

Script p. 59

The Printing Press p. 62

Electronic Media p. 64

Digital Media p. 68

Once Again: No Globalization without Media p. 70

5 "The Rise of the Global Imaginary": Discord in the Global Village p. 75

The Blue Marble p. 75

Study of the Imaginary p. 77

The Global Imaginary: The World as Imagined Community p. 80

Global Imaginary to Global Village p. 82

Regaining Babel p. 84

The Technological Sublime p. 85

Lewis Mumford p. 87

The Pentagon of Power p. 87

Conclusion: A Global Village of Babel p. 89

6 Media and Economic Globalization: Starving Children, Hannah Montana, Football, and the Bottom Billion p. 97

Nestle, Marketing, and an Infant Formula Controversy p. 97

How to Sell Shoes: From Cobblers to Nike p. 100

Media, Marketing, and Myth: "just Do It" p. 101

Nestlé: Just Don't Do It? p. 103

Media Oligopoly p. 105

Implications of Media Oligopoly: Is Big Bad? p. 106

"Global Village or Global Pillage"? p. 109

A Closer Look: The Walt Disney Company p. 111

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Fox, and Football p. 114

WarnerMedia: From Time to CNN to AOL to AT&T p. 116

No Media, No Capitalism, No Globalization p. 118

No World News Tonight: The Demise of International Reporting p. 120

Ignoring the Bottom Billion and the Megacity p. 123

Mo Amin: A Spotlight on the Bottom Billion p. 126

7 Media and Political Globalization p. 135

Killing Stories-and Journalists p. 135

Media and Politics in the Global Village p. 136

Killing Journalists: The World as War Zone p. 137

The Beheading of Daniel Pearl p. 138

UNESCO and Freedom of Expression p. 140

Killing Stories to Save Journalists p. 141

Killing Stories to Manufacture Consent p. 143

News and the Rationales for War in Iraq p. 145

Metaphors of War p. 146

Metaphors Can Kill p. 153

Facebook Revolution? Mohamed Bouazizi p. 156

New Media and Social Media in the Global Village p. 157

New Media, Malaysia, and the Case of Raja Petra p. 160

8 Media and Cultural Globalization: Black Lives Matter, Cartoon Killings, and Dismantled McDonald's p. 171

"I Can't Breathe" p. 171

Global Facts Take Local Form p. 172

"Those Danish Cartoons" p. 173

Local Cartoons, Global Riots p. 175

Globalization and Culture: Three Possible Outcomes p. 176

Cultural Difference: McDonald's and "The Clash of Civilizations"? p. 178

Cultural Convergence: McDonaldization or McWorld? p. 181

Cultural Hybridity: McCurry and Glocalization p. 186

Cultural Hybridity and Music: Omara Portuondo and Cuban Filin p. 188

Cultural Globalization and China: TikTok to Tiananmen p. 190

The Daily (and Historical) Negotiation of Local and Global p. 194

9 Conclusion: The Globalization of False Promises p. 201

"Homo Homini Lupus" p. 201

Roshaneh Zafar: Media, Microfinance, and Women p. 203

Cell Phones: A Better World? p. 204

Cell Phones-and Slaughter: Coltan p. 206

Fulfilling the Promise of Globalization-and Media p. 208.

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