Includes bibliographical references and index.

The determinants of international news flow and coverage. Introducti on: international news coverage and Americans' image of the world / Guy J. Golan, Thomas J. Johnson, and Wayne Wanta -- Changing glo bal media landscape, unchanging theories?: international communication research and paradigm testing / Tsan-Kuo Chang -- Determining the scope of "international" communication: a (living) systems approach / Shelton A. Gunaratne -- International news determinants in U.S. news media in the post-Cold War era / Kuang-Kuo Chang and Tien-Tsung Lee -- The impact of global news coverage on international aid / Yon Soo Lim and George A. Barnett -- Coverage of foreign electio ns in the United States: a model of international news flow / Wayne Wanta and Guy J. Golan -- Determinants of international news coverag e / Guy J. Golan -- The language of international news. How could so much produce so little?: foreign affairs reporting in the wake of 9 /11 / Shahira Fahmy -- Patterns and news quality: international s tories reported in American media / Renee Martin-Kratzer and Esther Thorson -- The influence of contextual factors on the selection of n ews frames: a cross-national approach to the news coverage of Severe Ac ute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) / Kuang-Kuo Chang... [et al.] -- News as culture: a comparative study of newspaper coverage of the w ar in Iraq / Salma I. Ghanem -- Frame building and media framing of the joint counterterrorism: comparing United States-Uganda efforts / Yusuf Kalyango Jr. -- See no evil, hear no evil, judge as evil?: examining whether Al-Jazeera English-language web site users transfer their belief in its credibility to its satellite network / Thomas J. Johnson and Shahira Fahmy -- An exploration of the determinants of international news coverage in Australia's online media / Xiaopeng W ang -- Blogs as stealth dissent?: "Eighteen touch dog newspaper" and the tactics, ambiguity, and limits of Internet resistance in China / Wei Zha and David D. Perlmutter -- Strategic global communicatio n. Global integration or local responsiveness?: multinational corporati ons' public relations strategies and cases / Joon Soo Lim -- Coor dination and control of global public relations to manage cross-nationa l conflict shifts: a multidisciplinary theoretical perspective for rese arch and practice / Juan-Carlos Molleda and Alexander Laskin -- N etizens unite!: strategic escalation of conflict to manage a cultural c risis / Sooyoung Cho and Glen T. Cameron -- Communicating with gl obal publics: building a theoretical framework for international public relations / Paul S. Lieber and Colin Higgins -- Columbia's Juan Valdez campaign: brand revitalization through "authenticity" and "gloca l" strategic communications / Juan-Carlos Molleda and Marilyn S. Rob erts -- The influence of mobile phone advertising on dependency: a c ross-cultural study of mobile phone use between American and Chinese yo uth / Ran Wei -- Fractured images