Talking Back to Globalization ─ Texts and Practices

This volume presents 10 chapters on forms of globalization illustrated through texts and practices of media. After interviews with Natalie Fenton and Radha S. Hegde on globalization-related phenomena like capitalism, media ownership, activism, social media, and identity, sections address texts in television and films (Occupation and Generation Kill), online travel web pages for LGBTQ travelers, blues music, and the Portuguese neofado music scene, and practices in relation to the trajectory of the European university, campaigns to shape journalistic practice during the Cold War, the role of intellectuals in promoting human rights, and the ideology of Facebook news feeds. Contributors are communication and other scholars from Europe and the US. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Brian Michael Goss (PhD, University of Illinois) is Program Director for Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. His two most recent books are Global Auteurs: Politics in the Films of Almodovar, von Trier and Winterbottom (Lang, 2009) and Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century (Lang, 2013).
Mary Rachel Gould (PhD, University of Utah) is Associate Professor of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Missouri Campus. Her research interests include the study of travel and tourism, documentary studies, digital storytelling, and popular culture.
Joan Pedro-Caranana (PhD, Complutense University of Madrid) is Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus. His multilingual publications and research interests address the social mediations performed by communication and educational systems and processes. More