Eugenia Siapera

Cultural Diversity and Global Media

The Mediation of Difference

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Maintaining that the media actively shapes and constructs understandings of cultural difference, rather than reflecting debates on cultural diversity, Siapera argues that we must look to the media in order to understand cultural diversity and its position in society. Through a thorough analysis of the complexity of the media, Siapera examines the processes of production, representation and consumption of mediated cultural diversity, including the changes in the media landscape introduced by the internet. Moving toward a more holistic understanding of the media and their embeddedness in society, politics and culture, Cultural Diversity and Global Media constitutes an interrogation of mediated cultural difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9781405180474
• ISBN-10: 1405180471
• Artikelnr.: 31708251

Autorenporträt

Eugenia Siapera is lecturer in Media and Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author (with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Radical Democracy and the Internet (2007) and (with Joss Hands) At the Interface (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. (Re)thinking Cultural Diversity and the Media

1.1. The Crises of Multiculturalism

1.2. The Mediation of Cultural Diversity

1.3. The Structure of the Book

2. Theorizing the Nation

2.1. Theories of the Nation

2.2. A Word on Globalization

2.3. Conclusions

3. Varieties of Multiculturalism

3.1. A Typology of European Multiculturalism

3.2. Multiculturalism in Immigration Countries: US andCanada

3.3. Constitutively Different: India and Nigeria

3.4. Conclusions

4. Theories of Multiculturalism

4.1. Multicultural Dilemmas

4.2. Essentialism or Fluidity?

4.3. Universalism or Particularism?

4.4. Recognition or Redistribution?

4.5. Conclusions

5. Media Theories and Cultural Diversity

5.1. Socio-Psychological Approaches to Media

5.2. Medium Theory

5.3. Political-Economic Theories of the Media

5.4. Socio-Cultural Approaches to the Media

5.5. Mediation: The Difference Media Make

5.6. Conclusions

6. Media Production and Diversity

6.1. Media Production and Mediation

6.2. Media Corporations

6.3. Media Organizations and Media Logics

6.4. Media Workers

6.5. Conclusions

7. Minority and Diasporic Media: Controversies andContributions

7.1. Why Study Minority Media?

7.2. Issues of Terminology

7.3. Theorizing the Role(s) of Diasporic Media

7.4. Diasporic Media: a Typology

7.5. The Politics of Diasporic Media

7.6. Conclusions

8. Theories of Representation

8.1. The Work of Representation

8.2. Stereotyping: the Cognitive Aspects of Representation

8.3. Framing and Discourse: a First Link to Ideology

8.4. Semiosis, Discourse, and Representation: an HistoricalAnalysis

8.5. The Performative Force of Representation

8.6. Conclusions: Representation and Mediation

9. Regimes of Representation

9.1. The Multiplicity of Representations

9.2. The Racist Regime of Representation

9.3. The Domesticated Regime of Representation

9.4. The Regime of Commodification

9.5. Conclusions

10. Self-Representations of Cultural Diversity

10.1. Representational Dilemmas

10.2. The Essentialist Regime of Representation

10.3. The Alternative Regime of Representation

10.4. Conclusions

11. Audiences and Cultural Diversity

11.1. What Do People Do with the Media?

11.2. Audience Reception of Mediated Cultural Diversity

11.3. Ethno-Cultural Groups as Audiences

11.4. Media Consumption and Identity

11.5. Right to Reply: How Can Audiences Respond?

11.6. Conclusions

12. Cultural Diversity Online

12.1. The Difference the Internet Makes

12.2. Network Society and Cultural Diversity

12.3. Mediation of Cultural Diversity Internet Style

12.4. Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

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1. (Re)thinking Cultural Diversity and the Media 1.1. The Crises of
Multiculturalism 1.2. The Mediation of Cultural Diversity 1.3. The
Structure of the Book 2. Theorizing the Nation 2.1. Theories of the Nation
2.2. A Word on Globalization 2.3. Conclusions 3. Varieties of
Multiculturalism 3.1. A Typology of European Multiculturalism 3.2.
Multiculturalism in Immigration Countries: US and Canada 3.3.
Constitutively Different: India and Nigeria 3.4. Conclusions 4. Theories of
Multiculturalism 4.1. Multicultural Dilemmas 4.2. Essentialism or Fluidity?
4.3. Universalism or Particularism? 4.4. Recognition or Redistribution?
4.5. Conclusions 5. Media Theories and Cultural Diversity 5.1.
Socio-Psychological Approaches to Media 5.2. Medium Theory 5.3.
Political-Economic Theories of the Media 5.4. Socio-Cultural Approaches to
the Media 5.5. Mediation: The Difference Media Make 5.6. Conclusions 6.
Media Production and Diversity 6.1. Media Production and Mediation 6.2.
Media Corporations 6.3. Media Organizations and Media Logics 6.4. Media
Workers 6.5. Conclusions 7. Minority and Diasporic Media: Controversies and
Contributions 7.1. Why Study Minority Media? 7.2. Issues of Terminology
7.3. Theorizing the Role(s) of Diasporic Media 7.4. Diasporic Media: a
Typology 7.5. The Politics of Diasporic Media 7.6. Conclusions 8. Theories
of Representation 8.1. The Work of Representation 8.2. Stereotyping: the
Cognitive Aspects of Representation 8.3. Framing and Discourse: a First
Link to Ideology 8.4. Semiosis, Discourse, and Representation: an
Historical Analysis 8.5. The Performative Force of Representation 8.6.
Conclusions: Representation and Mediation 9. Regimes of Representation 9.1.
The Multiplicity of Representations 9.2. The Racist Regime of
Representation 9.3. The Domesticated Regime of Representation 9.4. The
Regime of Commodification 9.5. Conclusions 10. Self-Representations of
Cultural Diversity 10.1. Representational Dilemmas 10.2. The Essentialist
Regime of Representation 10.3. The Alternative Regime of Representation
10.4. Conclusions 11. Audiences and Cultural Diversity 11.1. What Do People
Do with the Media? 11.2. Audience Reception of Mediated Cultural Diversity
11.3. Ethno-Cultural Groups as Audiences 11.4. Media Consumption and
Identity 11.5. Right to Reply: How Can Audiences Respond? 11.6. Conclusions
12. Cultural Diversity Online 12.1. The Difference the Internet Makes 12.2.
Network Society and Cultural Diversity 12.3. Mediation of Cultural
Diversity Internet Style 12.4. Conclusions Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

"It is easy to read, clearly written and well organised". (Times Higher Education Supplement, 4 November 2010)In Cultural Diversity and Global Media we learn that understanding the mediation of cultural diversity requires a comparative, global outlook. This is an invaluable contribution to the study of cultural diversity and media, providing both the tools and background necessary to study media representations of cultural diversity critically. It will help students and faculty alike to understand how discourse and media engage cultural diversity within increasingly complex global contexts. Kent Ono, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign