Global CommunicationYahya R. KamalipourLabel: Rowman & LittlefieldDescription: The fourth edition of Global Communication is the most comprehensive multidisciplinary multicultural authoritative and cutting-edge book published in the fields of media culture journalism and communications. Twenty-four highly accomplished and prominent media scholars representing ten countries provide a survey of international communication public relations and advertising implications of globalization international law and regulation global culture propaganda transnational media the shifting politics of media trends in communication and information technology and much more.The fourth edition includes six new contributors (Lee B. Artz Daniela V. Dimitrova Berna Ackali Gur Petros Iosifidis Perry Keller and Nicholas Nicoli) who cover such issues as politics of global culture global theories global law implications of internet and politics. Other chapters are fully updated to foreground contemporary examples and major events that have impacted our global communication environment. Collectively new contributions and updated chapters reflect the rapid technological and communications changes that are taking place nationally and globally. This eclectic book helps students to understand the emergence of globalization and its effects on a worldwide scale.Contributors: Lee B. Artz George A. Barnett Vibert C. Cambridge Jane Campbell Theresa Carilli Benjamin A. Davis Daniela V. Dimitrova John D. H. Downing Richard A. Gershon Berna Ackali Gur Cees Hamelink Petros Iosifidis Yahya Kamalipour Yesim Kaptan Perry Keller Dean Kruckeberg Lars Lundgren Vincent Mosco Nicholas Nicoli Allen Palmer Kuldip R. Rampal Devan Rosen Harmeet Sawhney Richard Vincent and Marina Vujnovic.