New Book: Cultural Diversity and Global Media

Cultural Diversity and Global Media
The Mediation of Difference
Eugenia Siapera

February 2010 • 416 pages
Paperback • 978-1-4051-8046-7
Hardback • 978-1-4051-8047-4
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, Eugenia Siapera argues that we must look to the media in order to understand
cultural diversity and its position in society.

*Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the
media from a global perspecive *Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical
findings on multiculturalism and the media
*Explores media production, representation, and consumption, incorporating arguments on
their shifting roles and boundaries
*Examines 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 communication
*Contains pedagogical features to help understanding and engagement with the material,
and draws upon an extensive bibliography

Eugenia Siapera is lecturer in Media and Communications at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the editor (with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Radical Democracy and
the Internet (2007) and (with Joss Hands) At the Interface (2004).

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

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February 2010 • 416 pages
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