List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Georgette Wang

Jan Servaes

Geolinguistic region as global space: the case of Latin America

John Sinclair

Decentralization processes and ``proximate television'' in Europe

Miquel De Moragas Spa

Bernat Lopez

Local and national cultural industries: is there life after globalization?

Georgette Wang

Lin-Lin Ku

Chun-Chou Liu

The global, the local and the public sphere

Colin Sparks

The ambiguity of the ``emerging'' public sphere and the Thai media industry

Ubonrat Siriyuvasak

Constitutional change, media, and the national public sphere: the case of Scotland

Philip Schlesinger

To globalize, regionalize, or localize us, that is the question: Japan's response to media globalization

Koichi Iwabuchi

Export of culture or coproduction of culture? Vignettes from the creative process at a global advertising affiliate, Beijing

Jian Wang

Cultural identity in an era of globalization: the structure and content of Taiwanese soap operas

Yean Tsai

Television and global culture: assessing the role of television in globalization

Paul S.N. Lee

Culture, language and social class in the globalization of television

Joseph D. Straubhaar

The choice between local and foreign: Taiwan youths' television viewing behavior

Herng Su

Sheue-Yun Chen

The production and consumption of national and local cultural products in the age of global communication

Gerard Pogorel

No culture is an island: an analysis of media protectionism and media openness

Joseph Man Chan

Media in the information highway: representing different cultures in the age of global communication

Anura Goonasekera

Reconciliation between openness and resistance: media globalization and new policies of China's television in the 1990s

Junhao Hong

Globalization: consumption and identity--towards researching nodal points

Rico Lie

Jan Servaes

Index