Lee Artz (PhD, University of Iowa), a former machinist and union steelworker, is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Northwest. Artz has published 12 books and 50 book chapters and journal articles on media practices, social change, and democratic communication. He speaks regularly on global media, popular culture, media hegemony, and the political economy of the media.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and CultureLee ArtzChapter 1: Media Imperialism in Global ContextOliver Boyd-BarrettChapter 2: Global Capitalism and Transnational Class ConflictJerry HarrisChapter 3: The Pan-African Media Gap: Empire and the Coloniality of Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South AfricaLast Moyo and Allen MunoriyarwaChapter 4: Global Media: From Media Imperialism to Global Media GiantsRodrigo Gómez and Benjamin J. BirkinbineChapter 5: Little Giants in Latin AmericaLee ArtzChapter 6: South Asia as Contested Terrain for Cultural ImperialismAnis RahmanChapter 7: A New Cultural Imperialist Rivalry?: A Political Economy of Communication, for Neither Washington Nor BeijingTanner MirrleesChapter 8: The Belt and Road Initiative, Communication, and GeopoliticsYuezhi Zhao and Anis RahmanConclusion: Editor’s Postscript

Lee Artz (PhD, University of Iowa), a former machinist and union steelworker, is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Northwest. Artz has published 12 books and 50 book chapters and journal articles on media practices, social change, and democratic communication. He speaks regularly on global media, popular culture, media hegemony, and the political economy of the media.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and CultureLee ArtzChapter 1: Media Imperialism in Global ContextOliver Boyd-BarrettChapter 2: Global Capitalism and Transnational Class ConflictJerry HarrisChapter 3: The Pan-African Media Gap: Empire and the Coloniality of Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South AfricaLast Moyo and Allen MunoriyarwaChapter 4: Global Media: From Media Imperialism to Global Media GiantsRodrigo Gómez and Benjamin J. BirkinbineChapter 5: Little Giants in Latin AmericaLee ArtzChapter 6: South Asia as Contested Terrain for Cultural ImperialismAnis RahmanChapter 7: A New Cultural Imperialist Rivalry?: A Political Economy of Communication, for Neither Washington Nor BeijingTanner MirrleesChapter 8: The Belt and Road Initiative, Communication, and GeopoliticsYuezhi Zhao and Anis RahmanConclusion: Editor’s Postscript

Lee Artz (PhD, University of Iowa), a former machinist and union steelworker, is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Northwest. Artz has published 12 books and 50 book chapters and journal articles on media practices, social change, and democratic communication. He speaks regularly on global media, popular culture, media hegemony, and the political economy of the media.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction: Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and CultureLee ArtzChapter 1: Media Imperialism in Global ContextOliver Boyd-BarrettChapter 2: Global Capitalism and Transnational Class ConflictJerry HarrisChapter 3: The Pan-African Media Gap: Empire and the Coloniality of Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South AfricaLast Moyo and Allen MunoriyarwaChapter 4: Global Media: From Media Imperialism to Global Media GiantsRodrigo Gómez and Benjamin J. BirkinbineChapter 5: Little Giants in Latin AmericaLee ArtzChapter 6: South Asia as Contested Terrain for Cultural ImperialismAnis RahmanChapter 7: A New Cultural Imperialist Rivalry?: A Political Economy of Communication, for Neither Washington Nor BeijingTanner MirrleesChapter 8: The Belt and Road Initiative, Communication, and GeopoliticsYuezhi Zhao and Anis RahmanConclusion: Editor’s Postscript