Global Communication

Karin Wilkins serves as Professor of Media Studies, Associate Director with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Chair, Global Studies Bridging Disciplines Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Wilkins has won numerous awards for her research, service and teaching. Her work addresses scholarship in the fields of development communication, global communication, and political engagement.Joseph D. Straubhaar is the Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also Director of Media Studies for the RTF Department. He was the Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies within the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, 2003-2006. His primary teaching, research and writing interests are in global media and cultural theory, media and migration, digital media and the digital divide in the U. S. and other countries, and global television production and flow.Shanti Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television (University of Illinois Press, 2006), and the co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (New York University Press, 2003). He has also published book chapters in several edited anthologies and articles in journals. His research and teaching interests include global media studies, cultural studies, Indian cinema and television, and postcolonial theory and criticism.

• New Agendas in Global Communication Research Mapping "Global" in Global Communication and Media Studies Mapping Arab Television: Structures, Sites, Genres, Flows, & Politics Watching TV in a Windowless Havana Room After Bollywood: Diasporic Media in an Age of Global Media Capitals Regional Cinemas and Globalization in India Mobilizing Global Communication: For What and for Whom? The Future of Global Communication from a Communication for Development and Social Change Perspective Beyond State-Centric Frameworks: Transversal Media and the Stateless in the Burmese Borderlands Anti-Politics and Information Societies in the South: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy New Mediations in the Digital Age: An Analysis of Global Communication through Media Professionals