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What is happening today in the world of world television? With intense commercialization and more open national markets, along with technological convergence and greater concentration of ownership, the international TV landscape is changing at a bewildering pace and in a host of different ways.
Contemporary World Television presents a unique overview of the global issues raised by these transformations in television. It looks at how they have affected the public interest and society across the globe and how the role of television as a nation-builder is experiencing erosion and evolution. The book's host of international expert contributors also examine TV's handling of news, and sexual content and its role in military conflicts. As well, they provide current assessments of how the global trends have diversely affected many different countries, regions, or language communities outside the Anglophone mainstream.
Fully illustrated, the book also uses case studies and selected reading guides and thus provides a transparent and accessible but in-depth introduction to central developments, issues, and concerns in contemporary world television.
Synopsis
Presents a unique overview of the global issues raised by the recent transformations in television. It looks at how they have affected the public interest and society across the globe and how the role of television as a nation builder is experiencing erosion and evolution.
About the Author
John Sinclair is Professor of International Communication at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, author of Latin American Television: A Global View (1999), and coeditor of New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision (1996). Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is the coauthor of The Australian TV Book (2000).
Table of Contents
PART ONE: TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
1. Television and the Concentration of Ownership
John Sinclair
Grey Box?: ëOldí and ëNewí Media
2 Television and Democracy: Threats and Opportunities
Graeme Turner
3.Public Service Television: Challenge, Adaptation and Survival
Manuel Alvarado
Grey Box: The Case of New Zealand: Roger Horrocks
4. Sex, Television and Regulation
Grey Box: The 'Brass Eye' Controversy: Jane Arthurs
5. Commercialisation of News and Current Affairs
Dan Hallin
GreyBox: Ethics and Television: Gay Hawkins
6. Televising War
Andrew Hoskins
Grey Box: Sep-11
PART TWO: TELEVISION AND DEREGULATED GLOBAL MARKETS
7. Globalisation and Regulation
Marc Raboy
8.Globalisation and National Identity
John Tomlinson
Grey Box: The 2002 World Cup
9. Television and Local/Imagined Communities
Daya Kishan Thussu
10. Limits to Regulation: StarTV in Asia
Amos Owen Thomas
Grey Box: Global Advertising and Deregulation
11. Europe as a Television Market
Jeanette Steemers
Grey Box: European Imports/Exports
12. Global Channels
John McMurria
Grey Box: Discovery Networks
PART THREE: TELEVISION IN THE AGE OF CONVERGENCE
13. Into the Post-broadcast
Eraohn Sinclair
Audience Decline: G.Turner
14. Evolution not Revolution: Multichannel Television
Alison Preston
15. Television, the Internet and Multimedia
Lelia Green
Grey Box: Television News Sites: D. Marshall
16. Is Television a Distinct Medium?
John Caldwell
17. Television and the Mediation of Reality
John Caldwell
Grey Box: Reality TV
PART FOUR: NATIONAL AND WORLD REGIONAL TELEVISION SYSTEMS
18. Canadian Television
Gaetan Tremblay
19. Australian Television
Terry Flew and Stuart Cunningham
Grey Box: Australia's SBS
20. Television and the European Union
Ib Bondebjerg
Grey Box: Endemol: J. Sinclair
21. German Television
Rob Burns
22. French Television
Waddick Doyle
Grey Box: Canal Plus
23. Italian Television
Milly Buonanno
Grey Box: RAI and Mediaset
24. Television in Russia
Elena Vartanova
Grey Box: Russia's NTV
25. Television in Eastern Europe
Monroe Price
26. Latin American and Spanish Television
John Sinclair
Grey Box: US Spanish-language TV
27. Brazilian and Portuguese Television
Joe Straubhaar
28. Television in India
Keval Kumar
Grey Box: Cultural Invasion
29. Television in Africa
William Heuva and Keyan G Tomaselli
30. Television in Southeast Asia
Eddie Kuo and John Keshishoglou
Grey Box: Singapore
31.Television in Japan
Shinichi Saito
32. Television in Greater China
Joseph Man Chan
Grey Box: Phoenix Satellite TV
33. Television in the Arabic-speaking world
Noureddine Miladi
Grey Box: Arabic Satellite Channel: Al-Jazeera