Introduction The evolution of Infotainment The infrastructure for global infotainment Global circulation of 24/7 infotainment Indian infotainment the Bollywoodization of TV news War as infotainment Infotainment and 'neo-liberal imperialism' A global infotainment sphere?
Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication, a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng, 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014, he was honored with a "Distinguished Scholar Award" by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication.
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
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
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