Transcultural Communication

<p>1 Introduction 1</p>
<p>2 Approaches to Transcultural Communication 10</p>
<p>2.1 Consequences of Globalization 13</p>
<p>2.2 Postcolonial Critique 18</p>
<p>2.3 Methodological Reflections 22</p>
<p>2.4 Integrative Analyses 28</p>
<p>3 The Regulation of Transcultural Communication 35</p>
<p>3.1 Global Commercialization and Communicative Infrastructure 39</p>
<p>3.2 State Regulation 51</p>
<p>3.3 From the Free Flow of Communication to the Regulation of Globalization 59</p>
<p>3.4 The Global Governance of Media 73</p>
<p>4 The Production of Media and their Transcultural Contexts 82</p>
<p>4.1 The Cultures of Production within Global Media Businesses 88</p>
<p>4.2 The Transculturality of Journalistic Practice 98</p>
<p>4.3 Alternative Forms of Media Production 104</p>
<p>4.4 Media Cities as Transcultural Locations 113</p>
<p>5 The Transculturality of Media Products 124</p>
<p>5.1 Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood 128</p>
<p>5.2 The Import of Programs and the Adaptation of Formats 140</p>
<p>5.3 The Articulation of News 154</p>
<p>5.4 Media Events 168</p>
<p>6 The Appropriation of Media and Transculturation 179</p>
<p>6.1 The Appropriation of Media as Cultural Localization 181</p>
<p>6.2 Media Disjunctions in a Mediatized Everyday World 193</p>
<p>6.3 Communities and Communitization 205</p>
<p>6.4 Media Identity and Citizenship 216</p>
<p>7 Perspectives on Transcultural Communication 226</p>
<p>Acknowledgements 231</p>
<p>References 234</p>
<p>Index 270</p>