"Understanding Global Media" offers a timely and comprehensive overview of global media production and circulation. Grounded in extensive case study material in order to illustrate key debates, the book analyzes media industries, production, content, audiences and policies on an international scale. Written by a leading author, it is both a thorough synthesis of existing academic work and an ambitious statement of new research directions. Drawing insight from a range of perspectives, including politics, political economy, media and cultural studies, and economic and cultural geography, this book is an essential guide to understanding media in a global era.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Global Media: Key Concepts and Issues - Theories of Global Media - Globalization and Global Media Corporations - Global Media, the Knowledge Economy and the New Competition - Global Media Cultures - From Sovereignty to Software: National Media Policies in an Age of Global Media - Conclusion -

About the Author

TERRY FLEW is Associate Professor and Head of Media and Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His latest book is New Media: An Introduction ( 2002).