Globalization and Media: Global Village of Babel
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442244585 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not the best Amazon Customer Very repetitive. It was used as a textbook but we could barely use it in class because the chapters were all over the place and in no particular order. Kinda seemed like it could be summed up in one, pretty short facebook article. Definitely a 4/10 waste of time, only made better by how short it seems.. The second edition of Globalization & Media is an outstanding The second edition of Globalization & Media is an outstanding, readable, and interesting text for international communications courses. Last spring I looked for a new text for my university Global Media Systems course. So many texts in the field are hundreds of pages, uninteresting, and unorganized. Lule's text was a big hit---for the professor and the students. Within the manageable 191 pages, Lule focuses on the importance of media's role in political globalization, cultural globalization, and economic globalization. Have media and globalization produced the "Global Village" envisioned
(Translated from French) (Communication)Very readable and wide-ranging in its scope and scale, the second edition of Jack Lule’s book is an extremely useful resource for global media studies. From earliest times, humans have used media to explore, settle, and globalize their world. A treat for students and teachers. Yet despite optimistic predictions, the world has not become flat, with playing fields leveled and opportunities for all. (Daya Thussu, University of Westminister, London)The fully updated second edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. By breaking down the economic, cu
In our day, media has made the world progressively “smaller” as nations and cultures come into increasing contact. Nor, in a more modern formulation, is the world flat, with playing fields leveled and opportunities for all. The global village, however, is not the blissful utopia that McLuhan predicted. The fully updated second edition of this lively and accessible book argues for the central role of media in understanding globalization. Indeed, Jack Lule convincingly shows that globalization could not have occurred without media. By breaking down the economic, cultural, and political impact of media, and through a rich set of case studies from around the globe, the author describes a global village of Babel—invoking the biblical town punished for its vanity by seeing its citizens scattered, its language confounded, and its destiny shaped by strife.. Decades ago Marshall McLuhan prophesied that media technology would transform the world into a “global village.” Slowly, fitfully, his vision is being fulfilled. Instead, Lule argues, globalization and media are combining to create a divided world of gated communities and ghettos, borders and boundaries, suffering and surfeit, beauty and decay, surveillance and violence. From earliest times, humans have used media to explore, settle, and globalize their world
Jack Lule is professor and founding director of global studies and professor and chair of journalism and communication at Lehigh University.