Cultural Diversity and Global Media

Eugenia Siapera is lecturer in Media and Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author (with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Radical Democracy and the Internet (2007) and (with Joss Hands) At the Interface (2004).

• 1. (Re)thinking Cultural Diversity and the Media 1.1. The Crises of Multiculturalism1.2. The Mediation of Cultural Diversity1.3. The Structure of the Book2. Theorizing the Nation2.1. Theories of the Nation2.2. A Word on Globalization2.3. Conclusions3. Varieties of Multiculturalism3.1. A Typology of European Multiculturalism3.2. Multiculturalism in Immigration Countries: US and Canada3.3. Constitutively Different: India and Nigeria3.4. Conclusions4. Theories of Multiculturalism4.1. Multicultural Dilemmas4.2. Essentialism or Fluidity?4.3. Universalism or Particularism?4.4. Recognition or Redistribution?4.5. Conclusions5. Media Theories and Cultural Diversity5.1. Socio-Psychological Approaches to Media5.2. Medium Theory5.3. Political-Economic Theories of the Media5.4. Socio-Cultural Approaches to the Media5.5. Mediation: The Difference Media Make5.6. Conclusions6. Media Production and Diversity6.1. Media Production and Mediation6.2. Media Corporations6.3. Media Organizations and Media Logics6.4. Media Workers6.5. Conclusions7. Minority and Diasporic Media: Controversies and Contributions7.1. Why Study Minority Media?7.2. Issues of Terminology7.3. Theorizing the Role(s) of Diasporic Media7.4. Diasporic Media: a Typology7.5. The Politics of Diasporic Media7.6. Conclusions8. Theories of Representation8.1. The Work of Representation8.2. Stereotyping: the Cognitive Aspects of Representation8.3. Framing and Discourse: a First Link to Ideology8.4. Semiosis, Discourse, and Representation: an Historical Analysis8.5. The Performative Force of Representation8.6. Conclusions: Representation and Mediation9. Regimes of Representation9.1. The Multiplicity of Representations9.2. The Racist Regime of Representation9.3. The Domesticated Regime of Representation9.4. The Regime of Commodification9.5. Conclusions10. Self-Representations of Cultural Diversity10.1. Representational Dilemmas10.2. The Essentialist Regime of Representation10.3. The Alternative Regime of Representation10.4. Conclusions11. Audiences and Cultural Diversity11.1. What Do People Do with the Media?11.2. Audience Reception of Mediated Cultural Diversity11.3. Ethno-Cultural Groups as Audiences11.4. Media Consumption and Identity11.5. Right to Reply: How Can Audiences Respond?11.6. Conclusions12. Cultural Diversity Online12.1. The Difference the Internet Makes12.2. Network Society and Cultural Diversity12.3. Mediation of Cultural Diversity Internet Style12.4. ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

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