Postcolonial studies meets media studies: a critical encounter

The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including: media convergence, transcultural subjectivity, hegemony, piracy and media history and colonialism. Drawing on examples from film, literature, music, TV and the internet, the contributors investigate the transnational dimensions in today's media, engage with local and global media politics and discuss media outlets as economic agents, thus illustrating mechanisms of power in postcolonial and neo-colonial mediascapes.

Introduction / Kai Merten and Lucia Krämer -- Media convergence / Terry Flew and Bonnie Rui Liu -- Media Globalization : the 'global public sphere'-a critical reappraisal / Kai Hafez -- Transcultural subjectivity : beyond the global/local divide-towards a transcultural understanding of mediated subjectivity / Brian Creech and Anandam Kavoori -- Diasporic media : global media and the emergence of 'lonely sojourners' and 'passive transnationals' / Uriya Shavit -- Inter/national media politics : approaches to postcolonial studies / Barbara Thomass -- Hegemony and counter-hegemony in postcolonial media theory and culture / Rinella Cere -- Performing regulation : the politics of postcolonial film exhibition and DVD distribution / Monika Mehta -- Postcolonial piracy / Lars Eckstein -- Sound cultures / Carla J. Maier -- Commodification / Oliver Lindner -- The marketing of postcolonial literature / Ana Cristina Mendes -- Postcolonial media history : historical arguments for a future field of research / Sven Werkmeister.