Theorizing Globalization

Instead of recycling common arguments, Ampuja critically examines the works of key globalization theorists to demonstrate their excessive fascination with recent changes in media and communications technology. The author argues that many theorists’ media-centric and unhistorical treatment of globalization stands in the way of a critical understanding of how the global media and modern capitalist societies have evolved.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I. BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
1. The Rise of Globalization Theory
2. Key Approaches to Media and the Problematic of Globalization

PART II. THE SPACE BEYOND THE PLACE: TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF MEDIA AND GLOBALIZATION
3. Between the Old and the New: Manuel Castells, the Media and the Space of Flows
4. Media as Life: Scott Lash and the Technological Order of Global Information Culture

PART III. CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION THEORY AND THE MEDIA
5. National Nightmares and Cosmopolitan Dreams: Arjun Appadurai , John Tomlinson and the Cultural Specificity of Mediated Globalization

PART IV. CONCLUSION
6. Conclusion: Globalization Theory and the Neoliberal Moment

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