Paula Chakravartty is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of several articles on the political economy and culture of high-tech development in India, as well as on migration, labor, and nationalism in India and the U.S. She is the coauthor of Globalization and Media Policy and her current research focuses on the politics of info-development and civil society in Brazil and India.Yuezhi Zhao is professor of communication and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Media, Market, Democracy in China and Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict, coauthor of Sustaining Democracy? and coeditor of Democratizing Global Media.

• IntroductionPart I: The State and Communication Politics in Multiple ModernitiesChapter 1: Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in ChinaChapter 2: Media, State, and Responses to Globalization: The Case of Post-Communist RussiaChapter 3: Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in SingaporeChapter 4: Governance and Legitimacy: The Case of the European UnionChapter 5: Media, Democracy, and the State in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution"Part II: Embedded Markets and Cultural TransformationsChapter 6: Cultures of Empire: Transnational Media Flows and Cultural (Dis)Connections in East AsiaChapter 7: Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian AdinkraChapter 8: A Transcultural Political Economy of the Arab Television IndustryChapter 9: Rethinking the Spanish-language Media Market in the U.S.Part III: Civil Society and Multiple PublicsChapter 10: Gender and Empire: Performing Femininities in the War on TerrorismChapter 11: Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 12: Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes . . . Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian StateChapter 13: Labor in or as Civil Society? Workers and Subaltern Publics in India's Information EconomyReferences

Rich fare . . . each of the studies is a worthwhile contribution to our knowledge, and the whole reader is easily imaginable as a very stimulating course text. . . . This collection provides some very valuable materials toward that task.

Paula Chakravartty is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of several articles on the political economy and culture of high-tech development in India, as well as on migration, labor, and nationalism in India and the U.S. She is the coauthor of Globalization and Media Policy and her current research focuses on the politics of info-development and civil society in Brazil and India.Yuezhi Zhao is professor of communication and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Media, Market, Democracy in China and Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict, coauthor of Sustaining Democracy? and coeditor of Democratizing Global Media.

• IntroductionPart I: The State and Communication Politics in Multiple ModernitiesChapter 1: Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in ChinaChapter 2: Media, State, and Responses to Globalization: The Case of Post-Communist RussiaChapter 3: Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in SingaporeChapter 4: Governance and Legitimacy: The Case of the European UnionChapter 5: Media, Democracy, and the State in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution"Part II: Embedded Markets and Cultural TransformationsChapter 6: Cultures of Empire: Transnational Media Flows and Cultural (Dis)Connections in East AsiaChapter 7: Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian AdinkraChapter 8: A Transcultural Political Economy of the Arab Television IndustryChapter 9: Rethinking the Spanish-language Media Market in the U.S.Part III: Civil Society and Multiple PublicsChapter 10: Gender and Empire: Performing Femininities in the War on TerrorismChapter 11: Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 12: Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes . . . Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian StateChapter 13: Labor in or as Civil Society? Workers and Subaltern Publics in India's Information EconomyReferences

Rich fare . . . each of the studies is a worthwhile contribution to our knowledge, and the whole reader is easily imaginable as a very stimulating course text. . . . This collection provides some very valuable materials toward that task.

Paula Chakravartty is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of several articles on the political economy and culture of high-tech development in India, as well as on migration, labor, and nationalism in India and the U.S. She is the coauthor of Globalization and Media Policy and her current research focuses on the politics of info-development and civil society in Brazil and India.Yuezhi Zhao is professor of communication and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of Media, Market, Democracy in China and Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict, coauthor of Sustaining Democracy? and coeditor of Democratizing Global Media.

• IntroductionPart I: The State and Communication Politics in Multiple ModernitiesChapter 1: Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in ChinaChapter 2: Media, State, and Responses to Globalization: The Case of Post-Communist RussiaChapter 3: Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in SingaporeChapter 4: Governance and Legitimacy: The Case of the European UnionChapter 5: Media, Democracy, and the State in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution"Part II: Embedded Markets and Cultural TransformationsChapter 6: Cultures of Empire: Transnational Media Flows and Cultural (Dis)Connections in East AsiaChapter 7: Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian AdinkraChapter 8: A Transcultural Political Economy of the Arab Television IndustryChapter 9: Rethinking the Spanish-language Media Market in the U.S.Part III: Civil Society and Multiple PublicsChapter 10: Gender and Empire: Performing Femininities in the War on TerrorismChapter 11: Neoliberalism, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Communication in Sub-Saharan AfricaChapter 12: Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes . . . Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian StateChapter 13: Labor in or as Civil Society? Workers and Subaltern Publics in India's Information EconomyReferences

Rich fare . . . each of the studies is a worthwhile contribution to our knowledge, and the whole reader is easily imaginable as a very stimulating course text. . . . This collection provides some very valuable materials toward that task.