Media Representation and the Global Imagination

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This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account ofhow media representations shape the way we see our andothers' lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysisof a range of international media representations of disaster, war,conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television,the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us torelocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who areremote from our daily lives, by developing 'mediatedintimacy' and focusing on the self. It also explores howthese representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation - theother, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. Sheargues that representations can and should contribute to fosteringmore ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about theworld, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will beof particular interest to students and scholars of media andcultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, internationalrelations, development studies and migration studies.

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Shani Orgad

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Communication & Media Studies Kommunikation u. Medienforschung Mass Communication & The Media Mass Media & Society Massenkommunikation, Massenmedien Massenmedien u. Gesellschaft Massenmedium Medien

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'This valuable book connects the scholarship on the social power of the imagination with the hitherto separate literature on new media technologies, audience formation and global mediation. In doing so it enriches both these fields while building some new bridges between them. It will be widely appreciated by anthropologists, media scholars and students of the cultural dynamics of globalization.' Arjun Appadurai, New York University 'Shani Orgad has written a readable, theoretically sophisticated book about media representation in a global world. By showing the complexity and ambiguity of texts and interpretation, she deftly avoids the twin problems of absolute domination and complete resistance that have characterized the literature. Based on a smart selection of cases, she carefully dissects the struggles over imagining a global world. Highly recommended to anyone interested in state-of-the-art analysis about media resources used to envision what "global" means.' Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University "This book will be of interest in a number of ways to those studying media in a global context." Internal Journal of Communication 'We live in a global and media age, a time when how we imagine the world is and could yet be, can, potentially and actually, enter into the course and conduct of that same world. Shani Orgad illuminates and intelligently reflects on this most crucial and consequential interplay between media representation and global imagination. A book for our times.' Simon Cottle, Cardiff University "Although this book will appeal directly to international media specialists, scholars broadly interested in globalization could use it in the classroom and their research." H-Net Reviews
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