Mapping BRICS Media (Internationalizing Media Studies)
Mapping BRICS Media (Internationalizing Media Studies)
Editors: Kaarle Nordenstreng, Daya Kishan Thussu
Series: Internationalizing Media Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2015
Edition: 1st Edition
About This Book
Mapping BRICS Media provides the first comprehensive and comparative study of media systems in the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It examines the rise of these emerging economies as both economic and cultural powers and analyzes how their media landscapes are evolving within a multipolar global order. The book brings together leading scholars, primarily from BRICS nations, to evaluate the historical, political, and institutional contexts of each country’s media system, along with journalism practices and regulatory frameworks.
The collection investigates how BRICS media are interacting internally and internationally, highlighting the potential for these countries to collectively influence global communication flows and challenge Western-dominated media structures. It also explores the implications of digital media and technological innovation for the BRICS countries’ media strategies.
The volume situates these developments within broader debates about globalization, cultural power, and international relations, addressing the coherence of BRICS as a grouping, intra-BRICS media exchanges, and the potential for multipolar media networks, including proposals for a new world information and communication order (NWICO 2.0). By combining country-specific case studies with comparative perspectives, the book provides an essential guide for scholars, journalists, and policymakers seeking to understand the intersection of media, geopolitics, and development in the context of rising non-Western powers.
Contents
Introduction: Contextualizing the BRICS Media
Part I: Debates and Concepts
BRICS as a New Constellation in International Relations?
How Coherent is the BRICS Grouping?
The BRICS Formation in Reshaping Global Communication: Possibilities and Challenges
The BRICS as Emerging Cultural and Media Powers
Part II: Media Systems and Landscapes
Brazil: Patrimonialism and Media Democratization
Russia: Post-Soviet, Post-Modern and Post-Empire Media
India: Multiple Media Explosions
China: Power Dynamics Across Four Historical Stages
South Africa: A Free Media Still in the Making
Part III: Comparative Perspectives
BRICS Journalists in Global Research
Intra-BRICS Media Exchange
Digital BRICS: Building a NWICO 2.0?
