Lee Artz (PhD, University of Iowa), a former machinist and union steelworker, is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Northwest. Artz has published 12 books and 50 book chapters and journal articles on media practices, social change, and democratic communication. He speaks regularly on global media, popular culture, media hegemony, and the political economy of the media.

List of Contributors

Introduction: Global Media Dialogues: Industry, Politics, and Culture

Lee Artz

Chapter 1: Media Imperialism in Global Context

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

Chapter 2: Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Conflict

Jerry Harris

Chapter 3: The Pan-African Media Gap: Empire and the Coloniality of Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Last Moyo and Allen Munoriyarwa

Chapter 4: Global Media: From Media Imperialism to Global Media Giants

Rodrigo Gómez and Benjamin J. Birkinbine

Chapter 5: Little Giants in Latin America

Lee Artz

Chapter 6: South Asia as Contested Terrain for Cultural Imperialism

Anis Rahman

Chapter 7: A New Cultural Imperialist Rivalry?: A Political Economy of Communication, for Neither Washington Nor Beijing

Tanner Mirrlees

Chapter 8: The Belt and Road Initiative, Communication, and Geopolitics

Yuezhi Zhao and Anis Rahman

Conclusion: Editor's Postscript