[ecrea] New Book: Communicating the Nation

> *New Book from Nordicom
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> Communicating the Nation**
> *
> *National Topographies of Global Media Landscapes*
> /Edited by Anna Roosvall & Inka Moring/
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> Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2010, 256 p. Price: EUR 30
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> The nation is one of the most resilient concepts in our understanding of
> the world and its societies. Politics, sports and cultural events, in
> news as well as in fiction, are largely structured by the national 
> logic. Internationalism -- be it in representation, production or 
> consumption -- does not challenge the privileged position of the nation.
> Globalising processes do offer an alternative to the primacy of the 
> nation, but have so far been unable to overcome its dominance. The 
> nation's resilience is, in part, due to its continuing relevance: 
> ontologically, it offers a sense of territorial stability and security
> while epistemologically it can supply a sense of familiarity and order
> in the global landscape. This volume provides cutting edge analysis of
> old and new architectures of the nation and its mediated presence in
> everyday life. In an age of alleged globalisation, nations and 
> nation-states have been claimed to be out-dated. However, the 
> proclamation of the end of the nation (-state) has been premature. 
> Eschewing fashionable obituaries for media, geography and the nation,
> leading media scholars explore the complex ideological and spatial 
> changes in contemporary understandings of the nation. The nation can be
> seen as a nodal point of media discourse. Hence the power, the politics
> and the poetics of the nation will be the subject of this book.
>
> For more information see 
> http://www.nordicom.gu.se/eng.php?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=313&me=13
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>
> Best regards,
>
> Ulla C.
>
> -- 
> Ulla Carlsson, Dr., Professor
> Director
> NORDICOM
> University of Gothenburg
> Box 713
> SE 405 30 Göteborg
> www.nordicom.gu.se
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