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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"transnational media"”.
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Videogame culture as transnational media: one neoliberalism, many resistances
… as sites of contestation between commercial media corporations on the one hand, and communities of artists, consumers and non-commercial digital users on the other. I argue that Metal Gear Solid 4 rewrites the stealth espionage thriller into a critique of neoliberalism's financial …
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Adapting Anime: Transnational Media between Japan and the United States
… or anime, as an example of how a contemporary media product crosses national and cultural borders and becomes globalized. Bringing together the theories of Hiroki Azuma and Susan J. Napier, it develops a theory called the "database fantasyscape" as a way of discussing such transnational flows. …
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Media globalization in Greater China : strategies of transnational media players and the regional television space
… on globalization. It presents an overview of the transnational corporate practices and the resulting transformation of the Greater China's television industry. The objective of this dissertation is threefold. It analyzes the development of the television industry in Greater China, examines the …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
It is commonly accepted that media and communication technologies play pivotal roles in the complex processes of what is broadly termed "globalization." The increasing speed, volume, and scale of transnational circulation has been one of the most dramatic development in the media landscape, …
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The creative content programme and audiovisual e-platform: An institutional analysis of UNESCO's influence on the development of independent documentary content and production practice
… social networking hub for independent filmmakers/media producers from the global South. Contained by these activities, the author focuses the multi-method approach on gender and access by (A) conducting an analysis of the composition of programs and practices of the <i>Creative Content …
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Media consumption amid contestation: Northern Nigerians’ engagement with the BBC World Service
… Nigerians’ interactions with international media, focusing particularly on their engagement with the BBC World Service. Employing a multidimensional qualitative research approach, the study examines the historical background of the relationship, the transformations it has undergone, and how …
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The Culture of Muslim Diaspora and (Un)Changing Identities: Sunni Turkish Ethnicity in London
… their immigration experience, the Sunni Turks’ transnational connections have always been held open to ensure continuity of the culture and symbolic attachment to the homeland. However, today, they try to keep up with some new situations in transnational social spaces they have developed in …
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Anti-colonial radio broadcasts to British East Africa and their audiences, c. 1940-1963
… how they imagined their participation in a wider media ecosystem. It also examines how colonial administrators monitored, interpreted and responded to broadcasts. By tracing debates about the effects of ‘subversive broadcasts’ from the Second World War to the transfer of power in East Africa, it …
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Emerging South-South media flows: Chinese media in Africa
… economies like China reshape the global order, transnational media flows are undergoing significant transformation, featuring flows within the traditional periphery in the Global South that do not necessarily pass through the traditional center of the West. Recent digital migration in …
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Bienvenida a Disney princess Elena: Exploring race, age, and gender in Disney’s Elena of Avalor
Working at the intersection of Media Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Girls’ Studies, this dissertation explores Disney’s contemporary construction of Latinidad by focusing on Elena of Avalor, Disney’s first Latina princess. Situated against the backdrop of contemporary postfeminist and neoliberal …
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Brand consumption in contemporary Vietnam .
… aims to explore the features of a particular transnational consumer culture in Vietnam – the younger generation of urban consumers a consumer culture that is shaped by the recent political history of post-socialist era in Vietnam and the country’s economic transition. The research pays …
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“From Karl Marx to Karl Lagerfeld”: A longitudinal study of how Vogue China navigated and reflected local and global cultural flows between 2005 and 2015
Vogue China is a transnational fashion magazine, a regional edition of one of the world’s most prestigious titles, and a symbol of the globalisation of the contemporary fashion industry. When Vogue launched in China in September 2005 its slogan ‘Vogue, Ultimate Fashion in China’ denoted the …
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Chinese-language Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Cyber Nationalism and Migrant Identity
… nationalism manifested by Chinese overseas transnational migrants. It establishes the relationship between migrant nationalism and identity by interrogating the roles that the internet plays in the migrant identity construction process in the New Zealand context. The research arises from the …
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Fissured Languages of Empire: Gender, Ethnicity, and Literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s-1950s
… literature written by Japanese writers in Korea, transnational media and publishing culture in East Asia, the gender politics of national language, and the ways in which kominka (imperialization) policies were neither limited to the colonized alone nor completely erased after 1945. Rather than …
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"Consuming the ""authentic"": globalized nostalgia and the politics of hybridity through culinary tourism and heritage foodways. A case study of Galicia, Spain."
This work interrogates the historical present through the lens of culinary tourism and heritage foodways, positing that the contemporary interest in authenticity and heritage are emblematic of a populism that has the potential to be emancipatory and liberating or reactionary. I read these …
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French taste: food and national identity in post-colonial France
… civilization to a nation seemingly besieged by transnational cultural invasions. It argues that as France navigated this transition, the classic image of French cuisine as the “universal” standard for modern culinary arts gave way to a more relevant gastronomic identity rooted in local …