Communicating Global Crises (eBook, ePUB)

Media, War, Climate, and Politics
Redaktion: Kamalipour, Yahya R.; Pavlik, John V.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In view of the tumultuous, conflictual, and divisive global environment; Russia's military attack on Ukraine; and anti-government uprisings in Iran and elsewhere, this timely book explores the crucial roles that media, war, religion, and politics play in impacting people and forming public opinion around the world. Prominent and accomplished experts in media, communication, politics, journalism, international relations, global studies, and cultural studies around the globe come together to present a vital resource for all decision-makers at local, national, and international levels. Multicultural and multidisciplinary contributors methodically research, assess, write, and present their findings through a variety of content and discourse analysis. This significant collaborative book provides a valuable and much-needed global discourse and analysis of our increasingly divided nations and world. In this eclectic and multidisciplinary volume, contributors focus on various issues including the rise of nationalism, militarism, fake news, climate crisis, media corporations, economic inequalities, inequality, refugee crisis, cultural representations, social media, human interactions, information warfare, propaganda, and emergence of a new world order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538181867
• Artikelnr.: 67935515

Autorenporträt

Yahya R. Kamalipour is a professor of communications and former chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, North Carolina A&T State University. Profiled in the Contemporary Authors, he has published eighteen books, including the acclaimed Global Media Perceptions of the United States: The Trump Effect, Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective (3rd edition), Global Discourse in Fractured Times, and Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age. He is founding director of the Global Media Journals network and founding president of the Global Communication Association. John V. Pavlik is professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His books include Disruption and Digital Journalism, Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality, Converging Media, Media in the Digital Age, Journalism and New Media and The People's Right to Know. He is co-developer of the Situated Documentary, a form of location-based storytelling using Augmented Reality and 360-degree video. He has served as a judge of the Emmy Awards for excellence in television news and documentaries for more than three decades.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Yahya R. Kamalipour, North Carolina A&T State University
John V. Pavlik, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Part I. The Global Context
1. Contemporary Geopolitics, War, and Media: A Historical Context
Lee B. Artz, Purdue University Northwest
Part II. Political Ideologies
2. Revisiting the Clash of Civilizations' Debate: What has Changed 30 Years
Later?
Raymond Taras, Tulane University
Part III. Social Media and Politics
3. Censorship, Social Media Corporations, and their Connections with US
Foreign Policy Think Tanks
David J. Park, Florida International University
4. The World Leaders on Social Media
Alexander Laskin, Quinnipiac University
Part IV. Media and Propaganda
5. Propaganda: Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News, and Manipulation
Marina Vujnovic, Monmouth University, and Dean Kruckeberg, University of
North Carolina Charlotte
Part V. Media and Conflicts
6. Russia, Ukraine, and the Court of Public Opinion
Richard Gershon, Western Michigan University
7. Re