Global media, culture, and identity : theory, cases, and approach es / edited by Rohit Chopra and Radhika Gajjala. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xviii, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Media, Culture, and Identity in the Time of the Global / Rohit Chopra -- pt. I Geographies and Currents of Global Media and Identity -- 2.Endemic Reporting: Cali brating the "News" and "Normal Disease" / Cindy Patton -- 3.The Mediasc ape of Hip-Wop: Alterity and Authenticity in Italian North American Hip -Hop / Joseph Sciorra -- 4.The Global Nomad: Navigating Mediated Space at a Global Scale / Michael Jenson -- 5.Overseas Print Capitalism and C hinese Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century / David Kenley -- pt. II Entanglements of the Global, Regional, National, and Local -- 6.Rea ding the i-pill Advertisement: The Pleasures and Pressures of Contempor ary Contraceptive Advertising in India / Nayantara Sheoran -- 7.The Fet ishistic Challenge: Things in Nineteenth-Century Danish Literature as M ediators of Identity / Frederike Felcht -- 8.How Far to the Global? Pro ducing Television at the Margins as Lived Experiences / Ivan Kwek -- 9. Remediation and Scaling: The Making of "Global" Identities / Grant Jun Otsuki -- 10.A New Hollywood Genre: The Global-Local Film / Nolwenn Min gant -- 11.The Discursive Disjunctions of Globalizing Media: Scalar Cla ims and Tensions at the French-German and European Television Channel A RTE / Damien Stankiewicz -- pt. III Digital Mediations in the Global Er a -- 12.Toward a Global Digital History / Paul Longley Arthur -- 13.Sub titling Jia Zhangke's Films: Intermediality, Digital Technology, and th e Varieties of Foreignness in Global Cinema / Hudson Moura -- 14.Women Seeking Women: Identity Constructions in German and Taiwanese Online Pe rsonal Ads / Hsin-I Cheng -- 15.Marketing Empowerment? Commodifying the "Other" through Online Microfinance / Franklin N. A. Yartey.

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Communication, International.
Mass media and culture.
Popular culture and globalization.
Technological innovations-- Social aspects.

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