Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
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Contents
GLOBALISATION AS IDENTITY CRISIS : The new global media landscape -- REIMAGINED COMMUNITIES? : New media, new possibilities -- CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY : Communications technologies and the reconfiguration of Europe -- EUROCULTURE : Communication, space and time -- NO PLACE LIKE HEIMAT : Images of home(land) -- TRADITION AND TRANSLATION : National culture in its global context -- UNDER WESTERN EYES : Media, empire and Otherness -- TECHNO-ORIENTALISM : Japan panic -- THE POLITICS OF SILENCE : The meaning of community and the uses of media -- THE END OF WHAT? : Postmodernism, history and the West.
Summary
Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient.