Television Globalization & Cultural Identity (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)

Examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization, exploring issues of the global age such as media, globalization, language, gender, ethnicity, cultural politics, and identity. Presents the arguments that television is a proliferating resource for the construction of identities, and that cultural identity is not a fixed essential "thing" but a contingent social construction to which language is central. For use in courses in cultural studies, communication, media studies, and sociology. Barker is a lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)