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In this provocative book Terhi Rantanen challenges conventional ways of thinking about globalization and shows how it cannot be understood without studying the role of the media. Rantanen begins with an accessible overview of globalization and the pivotal role of the media, including an introduction to the concepts and theories of globalization. Empirical data on the production and consumption of media and a methodology for relating individual, local experiences to the global picture are also presented. Rantanen has made this complex and huge subject very accessible by using personal histories and pictures to engage the reader.

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"""As an exercise in further expanding the frontiers of the media and communication in the globalization debate, the book has made a significant contribution."" -- Emile McAnany"

As an exercise in further expanding the frontiers of the media and communication in the globalization debate, the book has made a significant contribution. -- Emile McAnany 20061009

As an exercise in further expanding the frontiers of the media and communication in the globalization debate, the book has made a significant contribution. -- Emile McAnany

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Terhi Rantanen (MSc, LicSc, DocSc, Docent, Helsinki University) is Professor in Global Media and Communications. Her books include When News Was New (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) The Media and Globalization (Sage, 2005), The Global and the National. Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia (Rowman & Littlefield: 2002), The Globalization of News (with O. Boyd-Barrett, Sage: 1998), ′Maailman ihmeellisin asia′. Johdatus viestinnän oppihistoriaan (′Of All Affairs, Communication is the Most Wonderful.′ An Introduction to the History of Communication Research) in collaboration with M. Ampuja, The Finnish Open University: 1997), Foreign News in Imperial Russia: The Relationship between International and Russian News Agencies, 1856-1914 (Federation of Finnish Scientific Societies: 1990) and ′STT:n uutisia′ sadan vuoden varrelta′ (′News from the Finnish News Agency, STT: One Hundred Years′) (Weilin & Göös: 1987).

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