[ecrea] IJoC Special Section on Global Communication Power

International Journal of Communication Publishes Special Section
“Global Communication Power: Shift or Stasis”  The landscape of global 
media is undergoing a creative, technological,
economic, cultural, and political metamorphosis that extend the reach of
dominant players while simultaneously ushering emerging and alternative
players. Guest-edited by Joe F. Khalil and John D.H. Downing,  the essence
of the question that this Special Section on “Global Communication Power:
Shift or Stasis” addresses is whether the current configurations and
trends of global communication industries represent significant or
superficial change. But precisely what do we mean here by “change”?

Over the past 40 or more years, both policy and research debates have, at
times, raged over how “change” should be interpreted. The long-running
“modernization,” “cultural imperialism,” NWICO and WSIS debates are
among the most prominent examples. Terms such as “cultural hybridity,”
“transnational,” “glocal,” even the foreign policy catchphrase
“soft power,” have been batted backward and forward.
Two dimensions about the meaning of “change” and “power” have
dominated discussion. One, the communication technology gap between the
haves and have-nots (whether in nations, regions, or local neighborhoods),
and the rest: Has this changed, and to what degree?  Two, increasingly
visible jostling for territory in global communication space on the part of
emergent players (reconfiguration of state international broadcasting, small
states big media producers, or ubiquity of social media tools): What does
this change in the distribution of communication power?

In this Special Section of the International Journal of Communication, the
interdisciplinary contributions of eight original articles, a feature, and
the editorial introduction come from respected experts across the planet in
their respective fields. They drill down into news, entertainment,
advertising, the shift to media use via smartphone, digital “piracy,”
state international TV broadcasting, TV format trade, and still further
dimensions. These papers were first presented in a research conference 
at Northwestern
University in Qatar (NU-Q) in February 2015, sponsored by NU-Q and the Qatar
National Research Foundation.   We invite you to read these papers that 
published July 20, 2016 at
http://ijoc.org or through the article links below.  We look forward to your
feedback.

Questioning Global Communication Power – Editorial Introduction
Joe F. Khalil, John D.H. Downing, Northwestern University in Qatar

The 2015 Charlie Hebdo Killings, Media Event-chains and Global Political
Responses
Annabelle Sreberny, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK

The Changing Geographies of Pirate Transnational Audiovisual Flows
Tristan Mattelart, Université Paris 8, France

Advertising and Media in the Age of the Algorithm
John Sinclair, University of Melbourne, Australia

CCTV News and Soft Power (Feature)
John Jirik, Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Turkey

Al Jazeera’s Complex Legacy: Thresholds for an Unconventional Media Player
from the Global South
Mohamed Zayani, Georgetown University in Qatar

Engaging Youth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through Chat Apps:
Challenges and Opportunities for International News Organizations
Anne Geniets, University of Oxford, UK

Challenging U.S. Leadership in Entertainment Television? The Rise and Sale
of Europe’s International TV Production Groups
Andrea Esser, Roehampton University, UK

Vacillation in Turkey’s Popular Global TV Exports: Toward a More Complex
Understanding of Distribution
Sevda Alankuş, Eylem Yanardağoğlu, Kadir Has University, Turkey

The Business Push and Audience Pull in Arab Entertainment Television
Joe F. Khalil, Northwestern University in Qatar

______________________________________________________
Larry Gross
Editor Arlene Luck
Managing
Editor

Joe F. Khalil & John D.H. Downing
Guest Editors
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/

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