Organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in cooperation with the MacBride Roundtable on Communication and the Med Media Jemstone Network By TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin and Editorial Assistant Dana Zureikat The 10th MacBride Roundtable on Communication, organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in cooperation with the MacBride Roundtable …
Read More »Satellite Broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa: Regulations, Access and Impact
An International Seminar of Article 19, The International Centre Against Censorship The International Centre Against Censorship (Article 19) organized an international seminar on broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa held February 20-21, 1999 in Cairo. Article 19's name comes from Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of …
Read More »Bell Atlantic Temple University Conference on Digital Communication “The Challenge of the Digital Age: A Forum of Diverse Perspectives”
A report of the Strategic Planning Session held November 20, 1998 at the Sugarloaf Conference Center of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania By conference organizer George Gerbner Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications, Temple University On November 20, 1998, Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania and Temple University sponsored a strategic planning session for an international …
Read More »Broadcast Satellites and Television for Asia: Global Actors on a Continental Stage
Abstract The globalization of the communication industries is sometimes said to lead to developing countries either being excluded from the information age or converted into markets for global products. By the mid-1990s several satellites were broadcasting a wide range of transnational television channels across Asia. While early global/regional satellites and …
Read More »ART Puts Together First-Ever Arab Global Telethon
Arab Radio and Television (ART), as the "flagship Arab network" for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) TeleFood '98, broadcast the first global Arab satellite telethon in history, "Against Hunger." The aim of the event was raising money for projects to help poor farmers increase production and improve …
Read More »Transnational Media and Social Change in the Arab World
[Editor�s note: This article is an excerpt from a policy paper entitled "New Media New Politics? From Satellite Television to the Internet in the Arab World" published by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1998. If you would like to order a copy of the publication, see http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubs/pp.htm] Rise …
Read More »Localizing the Global in India: New Imperatives for International Communication Scholarship in the Satellite Era
As innumerable media corporations execute decisions made in boardrooms (where "globalization" and "deregulation" are the mantras), the challenges facing international communication scholars become veritable riddles of the Sphinx. They watch in bewilderment as transborder commercial satellites pulverize the protective, monopolistic, state-controlled broadcasting regimes of erstwhile colonies of South Asia. They …
Read More »Localism in the Era of Globalization and New Technologies: Implications for the 21st Century
As we come to the end of the 20th century and look forward to a new century and a new millennium, it is exciting to think of the opportunities facing those in media or media-related industries. However, with those seemingly endless opportunities awaiting the media professional in the new millennium …
Read More »Privatization and Transnational Communication
The Third Annual Conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) The third annual conference of the Arab-U.S. Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE) was held in Helnan Shepheard Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, September 7-10, 1998. The conference was hosted by the American University in Cairo and co-sponsored by Georgia …
Read More »From the Editor
Welcome to the journal Transnational Broadcasting Studies. It's a complex name, but one very deliberately chosen. A journal restricted to media that is both broadcasting in nature and transnational in range of transmission may seem highly specialized, but this is in actuality an already enormous and ever-growing field with the …
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