News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global InfotainmentSAGE, 9 Jan 2008 - 224 halaman "Thussu brings to this project the passion for news of a socially committed former journalist, the political economy of his international relations education and a formidable assembly of global detail, examining the recent explosion of ′infotainment′." - John Downing, Southern Illinois University "Thussu′s account of war as infotainment, the Bollywoodization of news and the emergence of a global infotainment sphere is as compelling as it is alarming. This is a significant and essential book for anyone interested in exploring the connections between news journalism, informed citizenship and democracy." Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ′dumbing down′ discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which ′soft news′ masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism. Chapters include a historical appraisal of infotainment; the infrastructure for its globalization as well as coverage of recent wars on television news as high-tech infotainment and the growing synergies between Hollywood and Bollywood-originated infotainment. A ′global infotainment sphere′ is emerging, the book argues, within which competing versions of news - from 24/7 news networks to bloggers - coexist. Accessible, engagingly written and robustly argued, the book combines analyses of theoretical debates on infotainment with extensive and up-to-date comparative data. |
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2 THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GLOBALINFOTAINMENT | 43 |
3 GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF 247 INFOTAINMENT | 68 |
THE BOLLYWOODIZATION OF TV NEWS | 91 |
5 WAR AS INFOTAINMENT | 113 |
6 INFOTAINMENT AND NEOLIBERALIMPERIALISM | 133 |
7 A GLOBAL INFOTAINMENT SPHERE? | 156 |
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