Global Media Studies: A Critical Agenda

Abstract At a time of severe political, economic, environmental, security, technological, and identitarian challenges, global media studies can make important contributions to an improved understanding of our current situation. A critical agenda for global media studies calls on the field to continue the tradition of speaking truth to power, drawing on a rich heritage of critical theories and approaches. But political, economic and other challenges to life as we know it compel us to expand our definition of “critical.” This broadened understanding includes reconsidering and reinvigorating our research traditions, and rising to the gravity and urgency characterizing our world by increasing public engagement. A critical agenda for global media studies calls on us to ask big questions, grapple with them collaboratively and pluralistically, and blow past our academic comfort zone to step into the public fray. … celý popis

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Publikováno v

Journal of communication Ročník 68; číslo 2; s. 337 - 346

Hlavní autor

Kraidy, Marwan M

Typ dokumentu

Journal Article

Jazyk

English

Vydáno

Oxford University Press 01. 04. 2018

Témata

Comparative Research

Critical Cosmopolitanism

Critical Theory

Global Communication

Global Media Studies

Critical Cosmopolitanism

Critical Theory

Global Media Studies

Comparative Research

Global Communication

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ISSN

0021-9916
1460-2466

DOI

10.1093/joc/jqx024