The Global Beauty Industry is an interdisciplinary text that uses beauty to explore topics of
gender, race, class, colorism, nation, bodies, multiculturalism, transnationalism, and …

Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in
different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global …

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies
from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female …

Ever since Japan's entry into global geopolitics, scholars have identified Japanese popular
cultural texts as a terrain on which this country's complex relationship to the West is …

Journalistic activity crosses national borders in creative and sometimes unexpected ways.
Drawing on many interviews and newsroom observation, this book addresses an …

The 1996 Miss World pageant in India turned into a controversial event when activist groups
launched protests against globalization and cultural imperialism. Approaching news texts as …

• Consumed in over 130 countries, telenovelas are media products particularly suitable for
the examination of the dialogue between media, culture and society. In 2003—4 …

This chapter attempts to provide a refocusing of some of the insights on media events
offered in the ground-breaking work of Dayan and Katz (1992). Drawing on Heidegger and …

본 연구는 인터넷에서 발생하는 문화적 실천 및 현상, 그리고 사회적 담론의 생성을 연구하기
위한 방법론으로 인터넷 에스노그라피 (Internet Ethnography) 를 제안하고, 방법론으로서의 …

Although research has documented neoliberalism's influence on pageantry in myriad ways,
there has been less discussion about women's experiences of pageant preparation in the …