The Global and the National: Media and Communications in Post-Communist RussiaThis original book explores the development of post-Soviet media and communications in Russia a newly globalized environment following radical social change. Unique empirical research on new communications technologies, news agencies, television, and advertising in Russia shows how the experience and effects of globalization, which initially played a liberating role in the downfall of communism, are being transformed by the reassertion of the national. The Global and the National challenges conventional assumptions about globalization and contributes to a better understanding of its theoretical base, as well as its effects on non-Western countries." |
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Page 2 - A social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.
Page 89 - Media imperialism, a more focused subset of this model, was defined as 'the process whereby the ownership, structure, distribution or content of the media in any one country are singly or together subject to substantial external pressures from the media interests of any other country or countries without proportionate reciprocation of influence by the country so affected
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Page 4 - This term refers to the sense of global compression in which the world is increasingly regarded as 'one place' and it becomes much more difficult for nation-states to opt out of, or avoid the consequences of being drawn together into a progressively tighter figuration through the increasing volume and rapidity of the flows of money, goods, people, information, technology and images.
Page 2 - Globalisation concerns the intersection of presence and absence, the interlacing of social events and social relations 'at distance
Page 5 - ... societies should be regarded as constituting but one general reference point for the analysis of the global-human circumstance, but that we have to recognize even more than we do now that the prevalence of the national society in the twentieth century is an aspect of globalization...
Page 85 - In this new vision, global, regional, national, and even local circuits of programme exchange overlap and interact in a multi-faceted way, no doubt with a great variety of cultural effects, which are impossible to conceptualize within the more concentric perspective appropriate to previous decades. Instead of the image of 'the West...
Page 13 - Modern organisations are able to connect the local and the global in ways which would have been unthinkable in more traditional societies and in doing so routinely affect the lives of millions of people
Page 15 - In the first place it is apparent that once we investigate actual cases the situation is exceedingly complex. It is not just a question of the everyday practical culture of local inhabitants giving way to globally marketed products. Such market culture/local culture interactions are usually mediated by the nation-state, which in the process of creating a national identity will educate and employ its own range of cultural specialists and intermediaries. Some of these may well have been educated in...
Page 5 - I have argued not merely that national societies should be regarded as constituting but one general reference point for the analysis of the global-human circumstance, but that we have to recognize even more than we do now that the prevalence of the national society in the twentieth century...
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| Title | The Global and the National: Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia Critical Media Studies-Institutions, Politics, and Culture Critical media studies G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Terhi Rantanen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0742515680, 9780742515680 |
| Length | 159 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Social Science / Media Studies |
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