Foreign News on Television: Where in the World Is the Global Village? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433116901 ISBN 13: 9781433116902

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they make of it. The book also assesses what the gatekeepers of foreign news - journalists, producers, and editors - think about what they produce, and about their viewers. This book shows that while globalization is a dominant force in society, and though news can be instantaneously broadcast internationally, there is relatively little commonality throughout the world in the depiction of events occurring in other countries. Thus, contrary to McLuhan's famous but untested notion of the «global village», television news in the countries discussed in this book actually presents more variability than similarity. The research gathered here is based on a quantitative content analysis of over 17,000 news items and analysis of over 10,000 survey respondents. Seventeen countries are included in this research, offering a rich comparative perspective on the topic.

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Review:

»This examination of foreign news on television in 17 countries is an ambitious and path-breaking approach to the expanding field of international journalism scholarship. It links data from content analyses, audience surveys, and interviews with editorial personnel. The research reveals far more difference and variety than similarity or uniformity in how foreign news is presented and received across the world. The implications for the concept of a 'global village' are discussed in an excellent concluding chapter.» (Jay Blumler, University of Leeds)
«This comprehensive book about foreign news provides rich and substantive findings generated from intriguing cross-national comparisons. Above all, the conclusions shed light on the role foreign news plays in the elusive concept of 'global village.' It is a must-read for scholars in the fields of international communication, international relations, journalism, and regional studies.» (H. Denis Wu, Boston University)

About the Author:

Akiba A. Cohen (PhD, Michigan State University) is Professor (Emeritus) of Communication at TelAviv University and is currently the Chair of the Department of Communication and Director of the Research Division at the Yezreel Valley College, Israel. He is a Fellow and a former president of the International Communication Association. Among his coauthored books are News Around the World: Content, Practitioners and the Public (2006) and Global Newsrooms, Local Audiences: A Study of the Eurovision News Exchange (1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1433116901
• ISBN 13: 9781433116902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Cohen Akiba