The internet is now a mainstay of contemporary political life, and captivates researchers from
across the social sciences. From debates about its impact on parties and election …

Evan Potter analyses how the federal government has used the instruments of public
diplomacy-cultural programs, international education, international broadcasting, trade, and …

News carries a unique signifying power, a power to represent events in particular ways
(Fairclough, 1995). Applying Critical Discourse Analysis and Chouliaraki's theory on the …

In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million
others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these …

Culture is an important dimension to consider in media psychological scholarship, though to
date little media psychological research exists that takes culture into account. This paper …

This paper examines the multiple roles that globalised, branded spaces of hospitality can
play in tourists' experiences in destinations. It is argued that previous studies have not …

The single most dynamic ICT development in recent years has been the worldwide surge in
mobile phone subscriptions. This “mobile miracle” has been continued in the developing …

News media play an important role in giving publicity and meaning to global suffering, as it
is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international risk situations. This …

This work is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the economic,
international business, political, legal, and environmental ramifications of globalization—one …

For some time now, scholars and other critics have warned for a decline in the quantity and
the quality of international news coverage in almost all Western societies. Investigating …