[FoME] Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

[Christoph Dietz]

Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World
Edited by: Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San Diego; Paolo
Mancini, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
Cambridge University Press, 2012, 344 S. (12-2011 erschienen)

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"Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World" offers a broad
exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of
media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the
widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems,
exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not
prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of their 'most
similar systems' design and the West European and North American cases
it encompassed. It is intended both to use a wider range of cases to
interrogate and clarify the conceptual framework of Comparing Media
Systems and to propose new models, concepts and approaches that will be
useful for dealing with non-Western media systems and with processes of
political transition. Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World
covers, among other cases, Brazil, China, Israel, Lebanon, Lithuania,
Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Thailand.
 
Table of contents

1. Introduction Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini

Part I. Cases
2. The impact of national security on the development of media systems:
the case of Israel - Yoram Peri
3. Italianization (or Mediterranization) of the Polish media system?:
reality and perspective - Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska
4. Culture as a guide in theoretical explorations of Baltic media -
Auksė Balčytienė
5. On models and margins: comparative media models viewed from a
Brazilian perspective - Afonso de Albuquerque
6. Africanizing three models of media and politics: the South African
experience - Adrian Hadland
7. The Russian media model in post-Soviet context - Elena Vartanova
8. Understanding China's media system in a world historical context -
Yuezhi Zhao

Part II. Methods and Approaches
9. The rise of transnational media systems: implications of pan-Arab
media for comparative research - Marwan Kraidy
10. Partisan polyvalence: characterizing the political role of Asian
media - Duncan McCargo
11. How far can media systems travel?: Applying Hallin and Mancini's
comparative framework outside the Western world - Katrin Voltmer
12. Comparing processes: media, 'transitions', and historical change -
Natalia Roudakova
13. Conclusion - Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini.