[FoME] Now as Paperback: Negotiating Democracy - Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies

[Christoph Dietz]

Isaac A. Blankson; Patrick D. Murphy (eds.)
Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies
State University of New York Press
Release Date Paperback: June 2008, 285 pages
US-$24.95

Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the
broader background of globalization.

Negotiating Democracy addresses issues that have defined the challenges
and consequences of media transformation faced by new and emerging
democracies. These issues include the dismantling of national
broadcasting systems, the promotion of private independent and
pluralistic media, the clash between liberal democratic and
authoritarian political traditions, negotiations about the appropriate
broadcast language, and the potential for free press and for freedom of
speech. The contributors use examples from countries such as Cambodia,
Bulgaria, Iran, Nigeria, and Taiwan to not only provide detailed
analysis of regional and/or nation-specific cases of media, but also to
identify transnational patterns that help deepen the understanding of
the media’s role in globalization.

At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Isaac A. Blankson is
Associate Professor of Communication and Public Relations and Patrick D.
Murphy is Professor of Mass Communications. Murphy is the coeditor (with
Marwan M. Kraidy) of Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives.

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Media and Democracy in the Age of Globalization
Patrick D.Murphy

PART I. REGIONAL TRENDS IN MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

1. Media Independence and Pluralism in Africa: Opportunities and
Challenges of Democratization and Liberalization
Isaac A. Blankson

2. Vestiges of Authoritarianism: Monopoly Broadcasting in Central
America
Rick Rockwell

3. Emerging Media Transformations in the New Europe: Past and Future
Challenges
Noemi Marin and Laura Lengel

PART II. STATE CONTROL, LIBERALIZATION, AND DEMOCRATIC REFORM

4. An Awakening in Cambodia: From Failed State to a Media-Rich Society
Drew O. McDaniel

5. First Democracy in Chinese History: Media’s Role in the
Democratization of Taiwan
Kuldip R. Rampal

6. Nigeria: Equivocating while Opening the Broadcast Liberalization
Gates
Chuka Onwumechili

7. Media, the State, and the Prodemocracy Movement in Iran
Mehdi Semati

8. Transformations and Development of the Korean Broadcasting Media
Doobo Shim and Dal Yong Jin

PART III. TELEVISION, RADIO, GLOBALIZATION, AND DEMOCRACY

9. Reality Television, Politics, and Democratization in the Arab World
Marwan M. Kraidy

10. Democracy Sponsored by NAFTA?
Mexican Television in the Free Trade Era
Kenton T. Wilkinson

11. First Green Is Always Gold: An Examination of the First Private
National Channel in Bulgaria
Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Raicheva-Stover

12. Globalization and the Privatization of Radio in Greece: Influences,
Issues and Consequences
Judy Rene Sims