Globalization: The Reader / Edition 1

by John Benyon, David Dunkerley

Overview

Globalization: The Reader addresses the big issues: communications and global media, political economy, cultural homogeneity and heterogeneity, new technologies, tourism, beliefs, and identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415929226
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Beynon is Reader and David Dunkerley is Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Wales.

Table of Contents

List of Extracts General Introduction 1. A Parable of Our Global Times 2. Globalization 3. Global Culture 4. Cultural Globalization 5. Cultural Homogenization and Hybridization 6. Media Imperialism and Global Media 7. Key Theorists 8. The Extracts Extracts Part A: Globalization and Society Part B: Globalization and Culture 1. Global Culture 2. Global Consumerism, 4ourism and Identity Part C: Globalization, Media and Technology 1. Global Media and Communication 2. The Global Impact of New Technologies Part D: Globalization and the Political Economy Questions Acknowledgements References Index