Pippa Norris

Cosmopolitan Communications (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this process. A series of firewalls protect national cultures. This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from both the societal level and the individual level, examining the outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies. The study draws on evidence from the World Values Survey, covering 90 societies in all major regions worldwide from 1981 to 2007. The conclusion considers the implications of their findings for cultural policies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511699948
• Artikelnr.: 52824032

Autorenporträt

Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work analyzes comparative elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communications. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include A Virtuous Circle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Democratic Phoenix (2002), Rising Tide (2003, with Ronald Inglehart), and Electoral Engineering (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Is cultural diversity under threat?
2. Theoretical framework
Part I. Firewalls: 3. Markets
4. Poverty
5. Classifying societies
Part II. Consequences: 6. Citizens: nation and cosmopolitan identities
7. Consumers: economic values
8. Morality: traditional values, gender equality, and sexuality
9. Activists: support for democracy, self-expression values, and human rights
Part III. Conclusions: 10. Cultural convergence over time?
11. The implications for cultural policies
Technical Appendix A. Concepts and measures
Technical Appendix B. List of countries
Technical Appendix C. Methods.