Wiley-Blackwell Cultural Diversity and Global Media: The Mediation of Difference

Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the media from a global perspeciveExplores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the mediaAssumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity, which critically combines elements of previous theories in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the media and cultural diversityExplores media ‘moments’ of production, representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on their shifting roles and boundariesExamines separately the role of the internet, which is linked to many changes in patterns of media production, representation and to increased possibilities for diasporic and transnational communicationContains pedagogical features that enable readers to understand and critically engage with the material, and draws upon and reviews an extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference tool. Review "It is easy to read, clearly written and well organised". (Times Higher Education Supplement, 4 November 2010) Review In Cultural Diversity and Global Media we learn that understanding the mediation of cultural diversity requires a comparative, global outlook. This is an invaluable contribution to the study of cultural diversity and media, providing both the tools and background necessary to study media representations of cultural diversity critically. It will help students and faculty alike to understand how discourse and media engage cultural diversity within increasingly complex global contexts. Kent Ono, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From the Inside Flap Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Maintaining that the media actively shapes and constructs understandings of cultural difference, rather than reflecting debates on cultural diversity, Siapera argues that we must look to the media in order to understand cultural diversity and its position in society.  Through a thorough analysis of the complexity of the media, Siapera examines the processes of production, representation and consumption of mediated cultural diversity, including the changes in the media landscape introduced by the internet. Moving toward a more holistic understanding of the media and their embeddedness in society, politics and culture, Cultural Diversity and Global Media constitutes an interrogation of mediated cultural difference. From the Back Cover Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Maintaining that the media actively shapes and constructs understandings of cultural difference, rather than reflecting debates on cultural diversity, Siapera argues that we must look to the media in order to understand cultural diversity and its position in society.  Through a thorough analysis of the complexity of the media, Siapera examines the processes of production, representation and consumption of mediated cultural diversity, including the changes in the media landscape introduced by the internet. Moving toward a more holistic understanding of the media and their embeddedness in society, politics and culture, Cultural Diversity and Global Media constitutes an interrogation of mediated cultural difference. About the Author Eugenia Siapera is lecturer in Media and Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author (with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Radical Democracy and the Internet (2007) and (with Joss Hands) At the Interface (2004).