Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

This book explores the relation between media and political systems in a wide range of non-Western contexts.

Daniel C. Hallin (Edited by), Paolo Mancini (Edited by)

9781107699540, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 November 2011

356 pages, 3 b/w illus.
22.6 x 15 x 2.8 cm, 0.49 kg

“This book is an intelligent and thoughtful expansion of the seminal framework developed in Comparing Media Systems to media systems beyond the western world. Hallin and Mancini have convened an impressive group of authors who challenge, refine, and occasionally reject, their framework through a combination of detailed case studies of some key countries and comparative overviews. The book represents a bold and intellectually exciting enterprise in the area of comparative media research. It will be of interest to social scientists and to media and journalism scholars seeking to understand media systems and the linkages to media practice beyond Europe and North America.”—David A. L. Levy, Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford

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.

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 Auks? Bal?ytien?
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.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], Media studies [JFD], Communication studies [GTC]