Includes bibliographical references and index.

The struggle for control in the age of imperialism vs the Belle Époque of liberal internationalism and the modern world economy in communications history / Dwayne Winseck -- Cultural proximity / Joseph Straubhaar -- Environmental materialism and media globalization / Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell -- "Marveling" the world with Hollywood militainment : the U.S. Air Force and Captain Marvel go higher! Further! Faster! / Tanner Mirrlees -- The contribution of global media to ethical capitalism / Sergio Sparviero -- Feminist scholarship on the global digital divide : a critique of international organizations and information companies / Micky Lee -- The Korean wave and the new global media economy / Ju Oak Kim -- In the name of national interest : globalization and media culture in the 21st century Japan / Koichi Iwabuchi -- Starbuck's dream of global taste / Nissrine Fariss -- "Therapeutic and inspiring"-Japanese pop culture in PRC and the issue of Asian modernity / Wendy Su -- Inter-Asia media/cultural studies in the era of hate / Ji-hyun Ahn -- Disciplining transnational popular culture's counter-flows on Family guy / David Oh -- European responses to (US) digital platform dominance / Robin Mansell -- Streaming diplomacy : Netflix's domestic politics and foreign policy / Evan Elkins -- Online platforms, cultural power, and China's pan-Asian strategy / Michael Keane and Huan Wu -- Netflix's corporate sphere in Asia in the digital platform era / Dal Yong Jin -- Digital media and the globalizing spread of populism / Ralph Schroeder -- Lethal, viral, global : the role of mobile media in the growing international scourge of fake news / Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Sun Sun Lim and Roy Kheng -- Machine translation : mediating linguistic difference in the era of globalization / David Gunkel -- Playing with Chinese characteristics : the landscape of video games in China / Zixue Tai & Jue Lu -- Trolling & praising the Arab Spring on Twitter / Ahmed Al-Raw -- Receiving unfamiliar culture in post-colonial Latin America in the digital age : interpretations of anime, manga, and K-pop by Chilean fans / Wonjung Min -- Multilayered identities and coexistence of preferences for national and US television / Joseph Straubhaar, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce, Jeremiah Spence, and Luiz Guilherme Duarte -- Globalization and coproduction in Latin America / Sophia McClennen -- Temporal dimensions of transient migration studies : the case of Korean visa migrants' media practices in the US / Claire Lee -- On the post-social marketization of the Eastern European press : a view from Germany / Mandy Tröger -- Cultural politics of global online subscription video-on-demand services in Canada : a case study of Netflix Canada / Taeyoung Kim.

"In this comprehensive volume, leading scholars of media and communication examine the nexus of globalization, digital media, and popular culture in the early 21st century. The book begins by interrogating globalization as a critical and intensely contested concept, and proceeds to explore how digital media have influenced a complex set of globalization processes in broad international and comparative contexts. Contributors address a number of key political, economic, cultural and technological issues relative to globalization, such as free trade agreements, cultural imperialism, heterogeneity, the increasing dominance of American digital media in the global cultural markets, the powers of the nation-state, and global corporate media ownership. By extension, readers are introduced to core theoretical concepts and practical ideas which they can apply to a broad range of contemporary media policies, practices, movements and technologies in different geographic regions of the world - North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. Scholars of global media, international communication, media industries, globalization, and popular culture will find this to be a singular resource for understanding the interconnected relationship between digital media and globalization"--