Looks at online communities in the United States, Japan, England, and France, describes the types of interaction possible through computer networks, and looks at the threats ...

Introducing the reader to politics, Danziger's rich, comparative perspective illuminates how politics works in countries across the world. Politics and Knowledge; Political ...

This readable and cogent book provides a much-needed overview of the information revolution in a global context. First tracing the historical evolution of communications since ...

Democratizing Global Media explores the complex relationship between globalizing media and the spread of democracy around the world. An international, interdisciplinary group ...

This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted ...

This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the state ...

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws ...

Examines the question of how telecommunications related aid policies might be designed to support both U.S. trade & foreign aid goals. Communication & information technologies ...