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- Title: Globalization (1) and Media: Do Twentieth-Century Concepts Remain Relevant?(Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 289 KB
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Abstract 'Historical understanding of the emergence of modern media provides a basis for envisaging alternatives in commercialized, globalized era': on the eve of 'September 11' a colleague and I concluded a book on media and society in the twentieth century with these words. This paper asks, five years on and particularly in the context of recent literature on the media and twenty-first-century terrorism, if the concepts we had in mind remain relevant. Further into the post-Cold War era, with 'the war on tenor[ism]' emphasizing Western-Islamic difference, with continuing rapid changes in media and communication (spread of Internet use, new forms of media and of convergence), the paper considers various claims in the light of the history of media in the twentieth century: