Daya Thussu

News as Entertainment

The Rise of Global Infotainment

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86844
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780761968795
• ISBN-10: 0761968792
• Artikelnr.: 23203504

Autorenporträt

Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication, a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng, 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014, he was honored with a "Distinguished Scholar Award" by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication.