Internationalizing Media Studies and the ‘Rise of the Rest’
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Internationalizing Media Studies and the ‘Rise of the Rest’
Presentation at the ECREA conference Istanbul
October 2012
Dr Daya ThussuProfessor of International
Communication Co-Director of India Media CentreUniversity of Westminster, London
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Global Media?
Hollywood-imported or inspired programming (in original, dubbed or localized versions):
In music (MTV) Factual entertainment (Discovery, National Geographic, History Channel)
Sports (ESPN) News (CNN) Children’s programming (Disney, Cartoon Network)
On-line media: Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
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American entertainment?
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The US-UK news duopoly
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The world’s top 5 media corporations
Global Fortune 500 ranking 2009 revenue, billion $
57 36
76 30 82 28
170 13
177 13
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BRICS and Beyond
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Study of post-Cold War media in former Eastern bloc:‘to extrapolate theoretically from such relatively unrepresentative nations as Britain and the United States, is both conceptually impoverishing and a peculiarly restricted version of even Eurocentricism’ (Downing, 1996).
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‘De-westernizing’, part of ‘a growing reaction against the self-absorption and parochialism of much Western media theory’ (Curran and Park, 2000).
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Imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit, warranted by unprecedented growth of media in non-Western world (Thussu, 2009)
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Imperatives for internationalization
Globalization of the media means that research demands it
Globalization of higher education means that students demand it
Globalizing the canon?
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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Chanakya (Kautilya) 3rd century BC
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A tale of two cities
CairoEstablished 970 AD
BolognaEstablished 1088 AD
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Media: a global history? Printing was invented in China not in Europe
First printing press in the Ottoman Empire was established in 1511, and in Mexico, in 1535
Strong tradition of anti-colonial journalism in Asia, Africa and the Arab world
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Sun Yat Sen worked for Chung-kuo Jih-pao (Chinese Daily Newspaper), founded in 1899.
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India’s greatest journalist
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‘Chindia’ impact
China is poised to have more impact on the world over the next 20 years than any other country. If current trends persist, by 2025 China will have the world’s second largest economy and will be a leading military power…
India probably will continue to enjoy relatively rapid economic growth and will strive for a multi-polar world in which New Delhi is one of the poles.
-Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World,
US Government, 2008
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Race to top: China vs. US
Valuation of GDP based on PPP in $billion
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
China 10.11 11.31 12.46 13.7415.16 16.80 18.67
US 14.52 15.06 15.49 15.9916.62 17.39 18.25
Source: IMF
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The top five: Out of Fortune 500
US 133Japan 68China 61France 35Germany 34
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‘Chindia’ and global communication
China and India’s combined economic and cultural impact, aided by global diasporas: globalization with an Asian accent
Media and communication growing in both countries – more than 800 communication programmes in Chinese universities. Mushrooming of media research institutes in India
Both source of a number of postgraduate and research students studying media and communication
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Chinese TV to watch
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A Million Media Now!
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Media and communication in ‘Chindia’
India: More than 120 round-the-clock TV news channels; world’s largest producer of feature films and one of its most linguistically diverse media landscapes
China biggest mobile phone market, highest blogger population; largest exporter of IT products
World Association of Newspapers reported that in 2010, India, with 110 million copies sold daily, is the world’s largest newspaper market, followed by China with 109 million copies
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Top ten Internet users, in millions
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Media for a ‘post-American’ world?
The limits of ‘neo-liberal’ corporate globalization – ‘Anglobalization’
Media contra-flows Cultural consequences of the ‘Chindia’ challenge: the ‘peaceful rise’ of China and India’s ‘demographic dividend’
Civilizations – from clash to conversation?