The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Transnationalism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eguchi, Shinsuke.

Contributor:

Eguchi, Shinsuke

Series:

Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

This book explores the intersections between communication and transnationalism from interdisciplinary and multimethodological perspectives. It is an indispensable resource for scholars and students in the field of Communication Studies, Transnational Studies, Critical Cultural Studies, and more.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Introduction: Communication and Transnationalism

Defining Communication and Transnationalism

Handbook Overview: Organization of Chapters

Part 1: Conceptualizing Communication and Transnationalism

Part 2: Transnational Digital Culture and Communication Technologies

Part 3: Transnational Queerness and Transness

Part 4: The Politics of Difference in Transnational Media Cultures

Part 5: Diaspora, Postcolonialism, and Decoloniality Through Transnational Communication

Opening The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Transnationalism

References

Part 1 Conceptualizing Communication and Transnationalism

1 Shifting "The Transnational" in the Digital Platform Era: Netflix's Effects On Local Cultural Production

Introduction

Transnationality in the Global Cultural Markets

Evolution of the Korean Wave in the Digital Platform Era

Netflix's New Transnationalization Models in the Korean Wave Tradition

Shifting Notions of Transnationality

Conclusion

2 How Are Emotions About Africa(ns) Made?: Toward an Analytic Framework for African (Transnational) Communication Research

Toward a Definition of Africa Affect

Exploring Materialities of Africa Affect and Transnational Affective Negotiations

Affective Labor

Conceptual/Analytic Propositions and Illustrative Scenarios

Affective Labor Through Embodied Responses

Africa as Zone of Intensities

The Shifting Symbolic Values, Archival Stereotype Resistance, and Exceptionalism Reinforcement

3 Understanding Interracial Communication Through a Transnational Lens: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach.

The Value of Transnational Interracial Communication

The Foundation of IRC: A Summary

A Collaborative Ethnographic Approach to Transnationalizing IRC (TIRC)

Transnationalizing IRC (TIRC): A Black Cisgender Female Professor's Journey (Tina M. Harris)

Racial Dynamics in Nigeria: A Citizen Perspective (Uzo Ugor)

IRC From a West African Ghanaian Transnational Lens (Ibs Sackey-Rockson)

The Future of TIRC

4 Critical Intercultural Communication Studies and Transnationalism: Continual Considerations

For Renewed Consideration: Re-Engaging Transnationalism Through Critical Intercultural Communication Studies

The (Im)mobility of Transnational Power

The Structure-Agency (Push-Pull) Dynamic of Transnationalism

Obscuring of Nations Through Transnationalism: Indigenous Nations and Sovereignty

5 Postcolonial Approaches in Organizational Communication: Toward Decolonization

Infusion

Transfer

Recalibration

Decolonization

Future Decolonial Research

Author Note

Note

6 Transnational Communication, Policy, Geopolitics, and Public Opinion in Eurasia: Bridging East and West

Theoretical Approaches to Transnational Communication in Eurasia

The Layered Complexity of Transnational Communication in Eurasia

Media Influence: From Traditional to Digital

Case Studies: Transnational Communication in Action

Russia's Information Strategy

China's Belt and Road Initiative as Transnational Communication

The European Union and the Value-Based Diplomacy

Policy Implications, Recommendations, and Challenges

7 The Changing Shape of Transnationalism in Latin American Communications Structures

Regulations at the Beginning of the 21st Century

No Digital Policies.

Challenges Regarding Equitable Access to Cultural Content and Information, in the Context of Large Platforms

Conclusions

8 Transnational Communications: Content, Capital, and Labor

Content

Capital

Labor, People, Civil Society

Notes

Part 2 Transnational Digital Culture and Communication Technologies

9 Digital Intimacy: A Critical Category of Transnational Analysis

Intimacy as a Critical Category

Digital Intimacy as Transnational Space, Or Eroscape

Four Scenes of Digital Intimacy

Everyday Dating

Diasporic Connections

Dating App Tourism

Cosmopolitan Encounters

Concluding Remarks

10 Transnationalism and Techno Centrism in Arab News

Background

Argument and Method

Student Focus Groups: An Active and Suspicious Transnational Audience

Features of Top-Down Techno Centrism in Transnational Arab News

11 Disinformation, Media Control, and the Global Politics of Truth: Insights From Egypt

Disinformation in the Framework of Western Liberal Democracy

Egypt's Legal Framework Around Disinformation

Methodology

Sampling

Analysing the Framing of Fake News

Prevalence of News Covering Home Affairs With Emphasis On National Security

Marginalised Themes: Press Freedom and Human Rights in the Opposition Media

International News

National Security: A Dominant Theme

Disinformation Through the Lens of National Security in International News

Disinformation in International News

General Interest News: Retractions, Rumours and Controversies

General Interest News and National Security

Discussion

Appendice

12 Fighting For Democracy Through Increased Civic Engagement In Kenya

Introduction.

Transnationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere

Networked Public Sphere

Kenya's Fluid Democratic Environment

The Gen-Z Uprising in Kenya

13 This Is How We Got Here: Colonialism, Empire, and Neoliberalism in a (Dis)connected World

Colonialism, Borders, and Violence

Transnationalism as Counter to Marginality

14 Digital Development Policy for the Barrio Bodega

Theoretical, Contextual, and Methodological Discussion

Analysis

"Aterrizar" Or "Bringing Digitalization Down to Earth"

Emergent Digital Practices of SMEs

Conclusion: SME Digitalization "The Chilean Way"

15 Digital Fans On the Continuum: Idealized Korean Popular Culture and Local Practices in the Transnational Mediascape

K-Content as the Imaginary and K-Fans in the Symbolic Order

YouTubing K-Pop Dances and Performing the Ideal

Netflixing K-Dramas and Challenging the Symbolic

TikToking K-Beauty and Negotiating Identity

Part 3 Transnational Queerness and Transness

16 Queer and Transgender Transnational Media and Communication in Contemporary Asia

Doing Queer and Transgender Transnational Media and Communication Across Asias

Gaps in the Scholarship

Three Recommendations: Case Study On Central Asia

Collaboration Among Scholars

Locating Asian Sexual and Gender Variance Within Local and Transnational Media

Centering Transgender and Non-Binary Lived Experience

17 "POWER IS BEAUTIFUL, AND I'VE GOT THE POWER!": Transnational Orientalism and Gender-Bending in 1980s and 90s Japanese Video Games

Transnational Approaches to Games

Birdo and the Newhalf in Japan in the 1980s

Flea and Orientalist High Fantasy.

Sheik and Shifting Norms of Gender Variance in Japan

18 Transnational Imagination of Queerphobic Asia: Anti-Political Correctness Discourse in the Chinese Gamer Community

Queerphobic Nationalism and Gamer Identity

Anti-Establishment Cynicism

Ideological Cartography

19 "Taiwan, This Is for You!": Nymphia Wind, Rethinking Homonationalism, and Liminal Mediated Diplomacy

Homonationalism and RuPaul's Drag Race

Queer Taiwanese Subjectivities and Politics Complicate the Homonationalist Thesis

Nymphia Wind and the Drag of Liminal Mediated Diplomacy

20 Dislocating Queer Citizenships: Autoethnography of Transnational Asian America in WeHo's Made in Asia

Queer Asia, Citizenship, and Made in Asia

Autoethnography

The Pull-Push of Cosmopolitan (Re)identification

Cosmopolitan Economies of Celebration

Modernity and Cosmopolitan Exceptionalism

21 Transnational Queer Un(belongings): Is Feeling at Academic Home a Fictional Tale

Transnational Immigrants

Transnational Queer (Un)belonging: Step 1

Transnational Queer (Un)belonging: Step 2

Transnational Queer (Un)belonging: Step 3

Transnational Queer (Un)belonging: Last Step

22 Getting Gender (Far) Right: Anti-Trans Political Discourse in Transnational Context

Theoretical Framework

Globalization and Media Representation

Colonial Legacies and Gender Norms

Far-Right Media and Transphobia

Case Studies: Media Representation and Transphobia Across Four Localities

Brazil: The Intersection of Religion, Politics, and Media

India: Hijra Identity and the Reframing of Transgender Rights

The United Kingdom: The Rise of "Gender Critical" Media Narratives.

Namibia: Transgender Rights, Colonial Legacies, and International Influence.

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ISBN:

9781003520177

9781040536636

9781040650356

OCLC:

1594452864

Publisher Number:

CIPO000366219