Media and Globalization

Nancy Morris is assistant professor of broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media at Temple University. Silvio Waisbord is assistant professor of journalism and mass media at Rutgers University.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Media Globalization and State PowerPart 2 Part I: States and Internet RegulationChapter 3 Exporting the First Amendment to Cyberspace: The Internet and State SovereigntyChapter 4 Where the National Meets the Global: Australia's Internet Censorship PoliciesPart 5 Part II: States and Communications Reform in Societies in TransitionChapter 6 "Negotiated Liberalization": The Politics of Communication Sector Reform in South AfricaChapter 7 State Transformation and India's Telecommunications ReformChapter 8 The IMF, Globalization, and Changes in the Media-Power Structure in South KoreaPart 9 Part III: States, Media, and Regional CulturesChapter 10 Tensions in the Construction of European Media PoliciesChapter 11 The Unsovereign Century: Canada's Media Industries and Cultural PoliticsChapter 12 Brazil: The Role of the State in World TelevisionChapter 13 Epilogue

I am impressed with the clarity of the argument and the value of the project—for what is at stake in it is a more balanced, less rhetorically driven debate on the relations of the state and forces of supranational change. . . . A significant contribution to the literature.