- 224 pages
- English
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About This Book
"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."
- Bob Franklin, The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studie s
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- About the author
- Introduction
- 1 The evolution of infotainment
- 2 The infrastructure for global infotainment
- 3 Global circulation of 24/7 infotainment
- 4 Indian infotainment: the Bollywoodization of TV news
- 5 War as infotainment
- 6 Infotainment and ‘neo-liberal imperialism’
- 7 A global infotainment sphere?
- References
- Index