Global media, culture and identity theory, cases and approaches

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Media, Culture, and Identity in the Time of the Global / Rohit Chopra -- pt. I Geographies and Currents of Global Media and Identity -- 2.Endemic Reporting: Calibrating the "News" and "Normal Disease" / Cindy Patton -- 3.The Mediascape of Hip-Wop: Alterity and Authenticity in Italian North American Hip-Hop / Joseph Sciorra -- 4.The Global Nomad: Navigating Mediated Space at a Global Scale / Michael Jenson -- 5.Overseas Print Capitalism and Chinese Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century / David Kenley -- pt. II Entanglements of the Global, Regional, National, and Local -- 6.Reading the i-pill Advertisement: The Pleasures and Pressures of Contemporary Contraceptive Advertising in India / Nayantara Sheoran -- 7.The Fetishistic Challenge: Things in Nineteenth-Century Danish Literature as Mediators of Identity / Frederike Felcht -- 8.How Far to the Global? Producing Television at the Margins as Lived Experiences / Ivan Kwek -- 9.Remediation and Scaling: The Making of "Global" Identities / Grant Jun Otsuki -- 10.A New Hollywood Genre: The Global-Local Film / Nolwenn Mingant -- 11.The Discursive Disjunctions of Globalizing Media: Scalar Claims and Tensions at the French-German and European Television Channel ARTE / Damien Stankiewicz -- pt. III Digital Mediations in the Global Era -- 12.Toward a Global Digital History / Paul Longley Arthur -- 13.Subtitling Jia Zhangke's Films: Intermediality, Digital Technology, and the Varieties of Foreignness in Global Cinema / Hudson Moura -- 14.Women Seeking Women: Identity Constructions in German and Taiwanese Online Personal Ads / Hsin-I Cheng -- 15.Marketing Empowerment? Commodifying the "Other" through Online Microfinance / Franklin N. A. Yartey.