BRICS Media by Daya Kishan Thussu, Kaarle Nordenstreng - 9781138604032

Taylor & Francis

Foreword Understanding Global Communication in a Polycentric World ; Introduction ; Part I \u2013Challenging Dominant Discourses in a New World Order ; 1. The BRICS paradox ; 2. Shifting paradigms of communication research ; 3. Moving beyond Western models in the study of BRICS media systems ; Part II \u2013 Media and Communication Structures and Systems ; 4. The Brazilian media system in a turbulent environment ; 5. A post-analogue hybrid media system: the Russian case ; 6. Media systems and structures in India ; 7. Beyond convergence: rethinking China\u2019s media system in a global context ; 8. South Africa: Beyond democratic deficit in public service broadcasting ; Part III \u2013 BRICS and Global Strategic Communication ; 9. Brazil and corporatist soft power ; 10. Russian soft power from the USSR to Putin\u2019s Russia ; 11. India: culture as soft power ; 12. China\u2019s cultural power reconnects with the world ; 13. Contending soft powers: South African media on the African co?