Contemporary world television / edited by John Sinclair ; associate editor, Graeme Turner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-123) and index.

TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST -- Television and the concentration of ownership ('old' and 'new' media: no more hugs and high fives) / John Sinclair -- Television and democracy: threats and opportunities / Graeme Turner -- Public service television: challenge, adaptation and survival / Manuel Alvarado -- (The case of New Zealand) / Roger Horrocks -- Sex, television and regulation (the Brass Eye controversy) / Jane Arthurs -- Commercialisation of news and current affairs / Daniel C. Hallin -- (Ethics and television) / Gay Hawkins -- Televising war (September 11) / Andrew Hoskins -- TELEVISION AND DEREGULATED GLOBAL MARKETS -- Globalisation and regulation / Marc Raboy -- Globalisation and national identity (the 2002 World Cup) / John Tomlinson -- Television and local/imagined communities (globalisation of Indian TV: diaspora as imagined community) / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Limits to regulation: StarTV in Asia (global advertising and deregulation) / Amos Owen Thomas -- Europe as a television market (European imports/exports) / Jeanette Steemers -- Global channels (the discovery networks) / John McMurria -- TELEVISION IN THE AGE OF CONVERGENCE -- Into the post-broadcast era / John Sinclair -- (Audience decline) / Graeme Turner -- Evolution not revolution: the ecology of multichannel television / Alison Preston -- Television and the Internet: multimedia, communications / Lelia Green -- (Television news sites) / P. David Marshall -- Is television a distinct medium? TV and convergence / John T. Caldwell -- Television and the mediation of reality: the TV screen as interface (Reality TV) / John T. Caldwell -- NATIONAL TELEVISION SYSTEMS -- Canadian television / Gaëtan Tremblay -- Australian television (Australia's SBS: multicultural television) / Terry Flew, Stuart Cunningham -- Television and the European Union / Ib Bondebjerg -- (Endemol: formats and the future) / John Sinclair -- German television / Rob Burns -- French television (Canal Plus) / Waddick Doyle -- Italian television (RAI and Mediaset) / Milly Buonanno -- Television in Russia (Russia's NTV: 'News is our profession') / Elena Vartanova -- Television in Eastern Europe / Monroe E. Price -- Latin America and Spanish television (US Spanish-language TV: from periphery to centre) / John Sinclair -- Brazilian and Portuguese television / Joseph D. Straubhaar -- Television in India (Cultural invasion) / Keval J. Kumar -- Television in Africa / Keyan G. Tomaselli, William Heuva -- A changing television climate in Southeast Asia (Singapore: managing liberalisation) / Eddie C.Y. Kuo, John E. Keshishoglou -- Television in Japan / Shinichi Saito -- Television in Greater China (Phoenix Satellite TV: a regional broadcaster) / Joseph Man Chan -- Television in the Arab-speaking world (Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel) / Noureddine Miladi.

What is happening today in the world of world television? With intense commercialization and more open national markets, along with technological convergence and greater concentration of ownership, the international TV landscape is changing at a bewildering pace and in a host of different ways. Contemporary World Television presents a unique overview of the global issues raised by these transformations in television. It looks at how they have affected the public interest and society across the globe and how the role of television as a nation-builder is experiencing erosion and evolution. The book's host of international expert contributors also examine TV's handling of news, and sexual content and its role in military conflicts. As well, they provide current assessments of how the global trends have diversely affected many different countries, regions, or language communities outside the Anglophone mainstream. -- Back cover