[ecrea] Mapping BRICS Media - new book

Mapping BRICS Media
Edited by Kaarle Nordenstreng and Daya Kishan Thussu
2015, Routledge: London and New York. ISBN: 978-1-138-02625-4

Mapping BRICS Media is the first comprehensive and comparative study of 
the emerging media landscape in the world’s most dynamic markets. This 
pioneering collection focuses on one of the key topics in contemporary 
international relations – the emergence of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, 
China and South Africa). The volume brings together distinguished 
scholars from the BRICS nations to assess the effects of the exponential 
growth in media in some of the world’s fastest growing major economies 
and examine how the emergence will impact on global media and 
communication. Transnational in scope, the book focuses on significant 
and yet hitherto largely ignored developments in the globalization of 
media. By interrogating the relationship between the inter-BRICS media 
and media practices and perceptions, this volume provides an accessible 
and critical guide to the complex debates about the impact of the ‘rise 
of the rest’ on the media globe.

Table of contents

Introduction: Contextualizing the BRICS Media Daya Kishan Thussu and 
Kaarle Nordenstreng

Part I: Debates and Concepts
BRICS as a New Constellation in International Relations?
Jyrki Käkönen

How Coherent is the BRICS Grouping?
Colin Sparks

The BRICS Formation in Reshaping Global Communication: Possibilities and 
Challenges
Yuezhi Zhao

The BRICS as Emerging Cultural and Media Powers
Joseph Straubhaar

Part II: Media Systems and Landscapes
Brazil: Patrimonialism and Media Democratization
Raquel Paiva, Muniz Sodré and Leonardo Custodio

Russia: Post-Soviet, Post-Modern and Post-Empire Media
Elena Vartanova

India: Multiple Media Explosions
Savyasaachi Jain

China: Power Dynamics Across Four Historical Stages
Zhengrong Hu, Peixi Xu and Deqiang Ji

South Africa: A Free Media Still in the Making
Viola Candice Milton and Pieter J. Fourie

Part III: Comparative Perspectives
BRICS Journalists in Global Research
Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad and Musawenkosi Ndlovu

Intra-BRICS Media Exchange
Herman Wasserman, Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Dmitry Strovsky and Jukka 
Pietiläinen

Digital BRICS: Building a NWICO 2.0?
Daya Kishan Thussu

About the Editors
Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass 
Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is author or 
editor of over 30 books in English, most recently Communication Theories 
in a Multicultural World (coedited with Clifford Christians, 2014).

Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication at the 
University of Westminster in London. Author or editor of 16 books, most 
recently Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood (2013), 
he is the Managing Editor of the journal Global Media and Communication.

Endorsements
‘This ground-breaking anthology has managed to delineate what is to date 
the most comprehensive and crystal clear topography of the oft-neglected 
media and culture in the BRICS nations.’ - Shi Anbin, Tsinghua 
University, China

‘The BRICS countries are the new actors in the global economy that 
fundamentally challenge the existing world order and its power 
relations … This timely and comprehensive study is a key contribution to 
the exploration and understanding of crucial shifts in the global 
communication landscape.’ - Cees Hamelink, Professor Emeritus, 
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

‘Will the rapidly growing communications systems of the BRICS embark on 
strategies of alternative development … or, will they abandon their own 
rich histories of struggle for social justice … to … profit from the 
existing institutions of global exploitation? A profound intervention, 
Nordenstreng and Thussu’s collection helps us toward an answer.’ Dan 
Schiller, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, USA

For more information visit: www.routledge.com/9781138026254




Dr Daya Thussu
Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media 
Centre
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow, HA1 3TP, United Kingdom
(D.K.Thussu /at/ westminster.ac.uk)
www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/directory/thussu-daya

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