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The fourth edition of Global Communication is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, multicultural, authoritative, and cutting-edge book published in the fields of media, culture, journalism, and communications. Twenty-four highly accomplished and prominent media scholars representing ten countries provide a survey of international communication, public relations and advertising, implications of globalization, international law and regulation, global culture, propaganda, transnational media, the shifting politics of media, trends in communication and information technology, and much more. The fourth edition includes six new contributors (Lee B. Artz, Daniela V. Dimitrova, Berna Ackali Gur, Petros Iosifidis, Perry Keller, and Nicholas Nicoli) who cover such issues as politics of global culture, global theories, global law, implications of internet and politics. Other chapters are fully updated to foreground contemporary examples and major events that have impacted our global communication environment. Collectively, new contributions and updated chapters reflect the rapid technological and communications changes that are taking place nationally and globally. This eclectic book helps students to understand the emergence of globalization and its effects on a worldwide scale. Contributors: Lee B. Artz, George A. Barnett, Vibert C. Cambridge, Jane Campbell, Theresa Carilli, Benjamin A. Davis, Daniela V. Dimitrova, John D. H. Downing, Richard A. Gershon, Berna Ackali Gur, Cees Hamelink, Petros Iosifidis, Yahya Kamalipour, Yeşim Kaptan, Perry Keller, Dean Kruckeberg, Lars Lundgreen, Vincent Mosco, Nicholas Nicoli, Allen Palmer, Kuldip R. Rampal, Devan Rosen, Harmeet Sawhney, Richard Vincent, and Marina Vujnovic.

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The new fourth edition of Global Communication is an indispensable contribution to the reiteration and transformation of the concept of globalization. Kamalipour's original vision of globalization is fundamental to understanding its transformative influence on contemporary communications. This new edition is highly recommended for communication studies in the digital age. --Hart Cohen, professor and discipline leader of communications and media, Western Sydney University This updated edition is the ideal book to help us understand the unprecedented contemporary and historical challenges our world is experiencing. Yahya Kamalipour assembles a matchless collection of amazing international critical thinkers willing to address the workings of power in global communication. Look no further, this is the definitive book. --David J. Park, professor, School of Communication, Florida International University

This updated edition is the ideal book to help us understand the unprecedented contemporary and historical challenges our world is experiencing. Yahya Kamalipour assembles a matchless collection of amazing international critical thinkers willing to address the workings of power in global communication. Look no further, this is the definitive book. --David J. Park, professor, School of Communication, Florida International University

The new fourth edition of Global Communication is an indispensable contribution to the reiteration and transformation of the concept of globalization. Kamalipour's original vision of globalization is fundamental to understanding its transformative influence on contemporary communications. This new edition is highly recommended for communication studies in the digital age. The new fourth edition of Global Communication is an indispensable contribution to the reiteration and transformation of the concept of globalization. Kamalipour's original vision of globalization is fundamental to understanding its transformative influence on contemporary communications. This new edition is highly recommended for communication studies in the digital age. --Hart Cohen, professor and discipline leader of communications and media, Western Sydney University This updated edition is the ideal book to help us understand the unprecedented contemporary and historical challenges our world is experiencing. Yahya Kamalipour assembles a matchless collection of amazing international critical thinkers willing to address the workings of power in global communication. Look no further, this is the definitive book. This updated edition is the ideal book to help us understand the unprecedented contemporary and historical challenges our world is experiencing. Yahya Kamalipour assembles a matchless collection of amazing international critical thinkers willing to address the workings of power in global communication. Look no further, this is the definitive book. --David J. Park, professor, School of Communication, Florida International University

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Yahya R. Kamalipour is a noted global media and communication scholar and current professor of communications and interim chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at North Carolina A&T State University. For 28 years he served as professor and head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Northwest. His areas of interest and research include globalization, media impact, international communication, Middle East media, and new communication technologies. He has published eighteen books, including Communicating Global Crises: Media, War, Climate, and Politics; Global Media Perceptions of the United States: The Trump Effect; Global Discourse in Fractured Times; and Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age. He has served as an international consultant for several colleges and universities and on advisory/editorial boards of a dozen prominent communication journals. He is founding director of the Global Media Journals network and founding president of the Global Communication Association.

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