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Seeks to fill a considerable gap in the literature on international communication and transnational media studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction Abbas Malek and Anandam P. Kavoori Part I: Theorizing News Transnational Cultural Studies and International News: Some Research Questions Anandam P. Kavoori, Kalyani Chadha, and Christina Joseph A Matrix Model for Framing News Media Reality, Naren Chitty Mediating News: The "International Media Echo" and Symbolic International Relations Peter W. Oehlkers Part II: Comparative Perspectives Ideological Manipulation Via Newspaper Accounts of Political Conflict: A Cross-National News Analysis of the 1991 Moscow Coup Li-Ning Huang and Katherine C. McAdams International News in the Latin American Press Jose-Carlos Lozano, Edgar Gomez, Alejandra Matiasich, Alfredo Alfonso, Martin Becerra, Ada Cristina Machado Silveira, Magdalena Elizondo, Jorge Marroquin, Luciane Delgado Aquino, and Francisco-Javier Martinez A War by Any Other Name: A Textual Analysis of Falklands/Malvinas War Coverage in U.S. and Latin American Newspapers, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru and Elizabeth P. Lester Roushanzamir Part III: National Perspectives Hegemonic Frames and International News Reporting: A Comparative Study of the New York Times Coverage of the 1996 Indian and Israeli Elections Ritu K. Jayakar and Krishna P. Jayakar Medusa's Gaze: North American Press Coverage of the Peruvian Hostage Crisis Gina Bailey In The Shadows of the Kremlin: Africa's Media Image from Communism to Post-Communism Charles Quist-Adade Covering the South Caucasus and Bosnian Conflicts: Or How the Jihad Model Appears and Disappears Karim H. Karim Constructing International Spectacle on Television: CCTV News and China's Window on the World, 1992-1996 Tsan-Kuo Chang and Yanru Chen Looking East, Heading West: Images of Former Friends and Foes in the Bulgarian Communist/Socialist Party Press, 1990 Anelia K. Dimitrova New Mirror in a New South Africa? International News Flow and News Selection at the Afrikaans Daily, Beeld Arnold S. de Beer South Africa's Miracle Cure: A Stage-Managed tv Spectacular? P. Eric Louw and Naren Chitty Part IV: Transnational Perspectives Constructing the Global, Constructing the Local: News Agencies Re-Present the World Oliver Boyd-Barrett Development News Versus Globalized Infotainment Daya Kishan Thussu Flows of News from the Middle Kingdom: An Analysis of International News Releases from Xinhua Charles W. Elliott International Agencies and Global Issues: The Decline of the Cold War News Frame C. Anthony Giffard Appendix Discussion Questions

About the Author

ABBAS MALEK is a professor in the Department of Radio,Television,and Film in the School of Communicaitons at Howard University in Washington D.C./e He is the president of the International Communication Association. ANANDAM P. KAVOORI is Associate Professor of Broadcast News and Telecommuniations in the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, in Athens./e