BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order?

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Table of contents
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
	BRICS building a new global order?
	BRICS: managing divergent interests
	Reframing a new global communication order?
	Reframing global communication studies
	Outlining the chapters
		Challenging dominant discourses in a new world order
		Media and communication structures and systems
		BRICS and global strategic communication
		BRICS and changing communication practices
	References
Part I Challenging dominant discourses in a new world order
	1 The BRICS paradox
		Paradox of an unlikely alliance
		The paradox of BRICS Challenge Theory
		The paradox of alternative institutions
		BRICS without a paradox
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	2 Shifting paradigms in communication research
		A new juncture
		The rise of the commons
		The challenge of BRICS to the field of communication
		References
	3 Moving beyond Western models in the study of BRICS media systems
		Seductive normative concepts
		International and empirical perspectives
		Testing Hallin and Mancini’s models
		Western media systems as reference points
		The myth of universal applicability
		Narrow disciplinary boundaries
		Missing variables
		Conclusion
		References
Part II Media and communication structures and systems
	4 The Brazilian media system in a turbulent environment
		The Latin American context
		The Brazilian media system
			Media regulation in Brazil
		Public service, public trust and attacks on journalists
			Journalism training
		The rise of the Internet and social media
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	5 A post-analogue hybrid media system: The Russian case
		The Russian case
		The Russian media industry: digitalization as a driver
			Digitalization
		Digital media reshaping the media system
			Digital divides
		Media policy-making: analogue to digital
			State-driven logic
			Industrial/market-driven logic
			Professional/corporate logic
		Conclusion
		References
	6 Media systems and structures in India
		Print culture in India and the colonial context
			The Indian language press: social reforms and resistance
			Radio and nascent nationalism
		Post-Independence media
			Broadcast media
			Development mantra and broadcast media
			Impact of the internal emergency on the media
			Liberalization of the media in the 1990s
		The Indian media system today
			Media ownership in India and implications for journalists
			Ownership and threats of shrinking public sphere
		Looking ahead with a new media system
		References
	7 Beyond convergence: Rethinking China’s media system in a global context
		Reforming China’s media system in a digital age: convergence from the top
		China’s media system and Hallin and Mancini’s three models
		References
	8 South Africa: Beyond democratic deficit in public service broadcasting
		Media-democracy dynamic
		The case of the SABC
			SABC’s 2014 editorial policy review process
		PSB as partner in participation
		An Afrokology of public-service broadcasting
			PSB as ‘ubuntu’
			PSB as development journalism
		Conclusion
		References
Part III BRICS and global strategic communication
	9 Brazil and corporatist soft power
		Soft power
		Cultural industry and corporatist soft power
		National propaganda and soft power
			Soccer, samba and hybrid beauty
			Government promotion of samba at home and abroad
		Radio and Brazilian identity
			‘Tropical Modernism’
		TV Globo and the soft power of the telenovela
			Dominating Lusophone transnational popular culture
			World exporter in deregulatory times and the satellite era
		Brazil as a BRICS member
		Conclusion
		References
	10 Russian soft power from USSR to Putin’s Russia
		Historical context
		Russian language and literature
		Russian culture
		Higher education
		The global presence of Russian media
		Russian diaspora and the Russian Orthodox church
		Soft power institutions and actors
		References
	11 India: Culture as soft power
		Historicizing soft power
		Faith-based diplomacy
		Yoga and ayurveda as soft power
		Diasporic soft power
		The soft power of Bollywood
		Communicating India
		Digital diplomacy
		The democratic dimension of India’s soft power
		How effective is India’s soft power?
		References
	12 China’s cultural power reconnects with the world
		Power and glory: the great rejuvenation
		Soft power becomes cultural power
		The strong nation: narrative forms of cultural power
		The strong nation: digital cultural power rising
		Cultural power and the ‘Digital Silk Road’
		Notes
		References
	13 Contending soft powers: South African media on the African continent
		Soft power in Africa
		From BRIC to BRICS
		Media as soft power
		The decline of South Africa as regional media power?
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV BRICS and changing communication practices
	14 BRICS journalism as a new territory for localizing journalism studies
		Localizing journalism studies
		Sample
		The BRICS perspective as an exercise in localizing
		Implementing localized interpretation
		Social media in news making
		Core qualities of a professional
		Key functions of journalism
		Key roles of journalists
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	15 Neoliberal capitalism and BRICS on screen
		Negotiating cultural norms and values: contemporary Chinese TV drama
		The case of Cell Phone
		An antidote to Hollywood: nationalist blockbusters
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	16 BRICS de-Americanizing the Internet?
		The infrastructure of the BRICS Internet
		Commerce: the changing contours of the Internet economy
			India: the world’s largest ‘open’ Internet
			Cyber-capitalism with Chinese characteristics
		Regulation: BRICS and cyber sovereignty
			Demanding data localization
		Weaponization of information and digital warfare
			Kremlin dezinformatsiya
			China and cyber espionage
		Digital connectivity for development: lessons from BRICS
		BRICS de-Americanizing the Internet?
		References
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