Table of Contents

Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change, an Introduction
Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Tanner Mirrlees

Part 1 – Contextualizing and Conceptualizing Empire and Media imperialism

Chapter 1 - Media and Cultural Imperialism: Genealogy of an Idea
Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Chapter 2 - Historicizing and Theorizing Media and Cultural Imperialism
Kaarle Nordenstreng, Marko Ampuja & Juha Koivisto

Chapter 3 – The US Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A Reconceptualization and 20th Century Retrospective
Tanner Mirrlees

Part 2 –The News, War and Propaganda

Chapter 4 - Western News Media, Propaganda and Pretexts for Neoliberal War
Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Chapter 5 – “RussiaGate”: The Construction of the Enemy
Gerald Sussman

Chapter 6 – The Great Game for EurAsia and the Skripal Affair
Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Chapter 7 - Propaganda, Manipulation and the Exercise of Imperial Power: From Media Imperialism to Informational Imperialism
Piers Robinson

Part 3 – Hollywood, War and Militainment

Chapter 8 - Socialism by Stealth? Governmental Subvention and Hollywood
Toby Miller

Chapter 9 - The US Embassy-Hollywood Complex: The Sony Pictures Hack and 21st century media Imperialism
Paul Moody

Chapter 10 – Dispatches from the Militainment Empire
Roger Stahl

Chapter 11 - Global Executioner: Legitimizing Drone Warfare through Hollywood Movies
Erin Steuter and Geoff Martin

Part 4 –The Internet, Social Media and Platform Imperialism

Chapter 12 – Guarding Public Values in a Connective World: Challenges for Europe.
José van Dijck

Chapter 13 - Facebook’s Platform Imperialism: The Economics and Geopolitics of Social Media
Dal Yong Jin

Chapter 14 - New Global Music Distribution System, Same Old Linguistic Hegemony? Analyzing English on Spotify
Christof Demont-Heinrich

Chapter 15 – “Weaponizing” the Internet and World Wide Web, for Empire: Platforming Capitalism, Data-Veillance, Public Diplomacy and Cyber-Warfare
Tanner Mirrlees

Part 5 – Development Communication, Global Divides and Cultural Imperialism

Chapter 16 - Cultural Autonomy in the 1970s and Beyond: Toward Cultural Justice
Cees Hamelink

Chapter 17 - Cultural Imperialism and Development Communication for Social Change
Mohan Dutta

Chapter 18 - Mapping Power in Women’s Empowerment Projects in Global Development
Karin Gwinn Wilkins

Part 6 - Rising Media Empires: The Case of China

Chapter 19 – China: An Emerging Cultural Imperialist
Colin Sparks

Chapter 20 – The Empire’s New Clothes: Political Priorities and Corporate Ambitions in China’s Drive for Global Ascendency
Graham Murdoch

Chapter 21 – Not (yet) The Chinese Century: The Endurance of the US Empire and its Cultural Industries
Tanner Mirrlees

Contributor Bios

About the Author

Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University.

Tanner Mirrlees is Associate Professor in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's Communication and Digital Media Studies program, and the Vice-President of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA).

Reviews

Here readers can encounter the variety and vigor of media/cultural imperialism approaches to the ever-evolving global mediascape. In a single reference work, seasoned researchers from across the planet sharply challenge enduring myopias of much conventional media research. A vital contribution to debate and analysis.
*John D.H. Downing, Director Emeritus, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale*