Cultural Diversity and Global Media The Mediation of Difference [Paperback]

• Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the media from a global perspecive
• Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the media
• Assumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity, which critically combines elements of previous theories in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the media and cultural diversity
• Explores media ‘moments’ of production, representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on their shifting roles and boundaries
• Examines separately the role of the internet, which is linked to many changes in patterns of media production, representation and to increased possibilities for diasporic and transnational communication
• Contains pedagogical features that enable readers to understand and critically engage with the material, and draws upon and reviews an extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference tool.

1.1. The Crises of Multiculturalism

1.2. The Mediation of Cultural Diversity

1.3. The Structure of the Book

2. Theorizing the Nation

2.1. Theories of the Nation

2.2. A Word on Globalization

2.3. Conclusions

3. Varieties of Multiculturalism

3.1. A Typology of European Multiculturalism

3.2. Multiculturalism in Immigration Countries: US and Canada

3.3. Constitutively Different: Ilӗ