Theorizing Globalization

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xii, 410 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Marko Ampuja, Ph.D. (2010), University of Helsinki, is a lecturer in the Department of Social Research at that university.

Readership

Sociologists, media researchers, activists, students of globalization and anyone interested in the critical study of globalization and global media and the impact of neoliberalism on contemporary social thinking.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I. BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
1. The Rise of Globalization Theory
2. Key Approaches to Media and the Problematic of Globalization

PART II. THE SPACE BEYOND THE PLACE: TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF MEDIA AND GLOBALIZATION
3. Between the Old and the New: Manuel Castells, the Media and the Space of Flows
4. Media as Life: Scott Lash and the Technological Order of Global Information Culture

PART III. CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION THEORY AND THE MEDIA
5. National Nightmares and Cosmopolitan Dreams: Arjun Appadurai , John Tomlinson and the Cultural Specificity of Mediated Globalization

PART IV. CONCLUSION
6. Conclusion: Globalization Theory and the Neoliberal Moment

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Index

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