Description: Media Imperialism, Hardcover by Boyd-Barrett, Oliver, ISBN 1446268705, ISBN-13 9781446268704, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This volume examines how the media plays a role in imperialism. It includes traditional media and new technology, as well as infrastructures of communication, production, dissemination and reception, and the interests that control them. It addresses territorial and “free trade” empire building by the US and the role of the media; models of media imperialism by Harold Innis, Herbert Schiller, Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky, . Bayly, and Alfred McCoy; how US imperial expansion has been initiated through the construction of false or questionable pretexts for war, such as Operation Desert Storm, the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the “war on terror,” the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the war on drugs, humanitarian intervention, and democracy, and the role of media in accepting these pretexts; pretexts for the invasion of Libya and Syria; media propaganda about Iran as a threat in terms of nuclear weapons; media empires; other media imperialisms, such as the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the Arab world, the Korean Wave, and China; and media resisting imperialism, such as in British India, international news agencies, Interfax in Russia, Al Jazeera, and the resistance to Hollywood movies in China and India. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Media Imperialism
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Media Imperialism
Language: English
Publisher: SAGE Publications, The Limited
Subject: Media Studies, Imperialism, General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Not Available
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Référence, Social Science
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Book, Other
