{"product_id":"media-representation-and-the-global-imagination-hardback-9780745643793","title":"Media Representation and the Global Imagination (Hardback) 9780745643793","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMedia Representation and the Global Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eShani Orgad (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745643793, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 September 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.494 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This valuable book connects the scholarship on the social power of the imagination with the hitherto separate literature on new media technologies, audience formation and global mediation. In doing so it enriches both these fields while building some new bridges between them. It will be widely appreciated by anthropologists, media scholars and students of the cultural dynamics of globalization.\u003ci\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eArjun Appadurai, New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Shani Orgad has written a readable, theoretically sophisticated book about media representation in a global world. By showing the complexity and ambiguity of texts and interpretation, she deftly avoids the twin problems of absolute domination and complete resistance that have characterized the literature. Based on a smart selection of cases, she carefully dissects the struggles over imagining a global world. Highly recommended to anyone interested in state-of-the-art analysis about media resources used to envision what \"global\" means\u003ci\u003e.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilvio Waisbord, George Washington University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book will be of interest in a number of ways to those studying media in a global context.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternal Journal of Communication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'We live in a global and media age, a time when how we imagine the world is and could yet be, can, potentially and actually, enter into the course and conduct of that same world. Shani Orgad illuminates and intelligently reflects on this most crucial and consequential interplay between media representation and global imagination. A book for our times.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Cottle, Cardiff University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Although this book will appeal directly to international media specialists, scholars broadly interested in globalization could use it in the classroom and their research.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedia Representations and the Global Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDetailed Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Media representation and the global imagination: A framework\u003cbr\u003e2 Imagining others: Representations of natural disasters\u003cbr\u003e3 Imagining ourselves: Representations of the nation\u003cbr\u003e4 Imagining possible lives: Representations of migration\u003cbr\u003e5 Imagining the world: Representations of New Year celebrations\u003cbr\u003e6 Imagining the self\u003cbr\u003e7 Conclusion: Nothing gets you closer revisited\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407311171864,"sku":"9780745643793","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745643793.jpg?v=1784160827","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/media-representation-and-the-global-imagination-hardback-9780745643793","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}