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Attwood, Alan (1996), 'The incredible expanding Rupert', The Age (Melbourne), August 22. The global empire of Rupert Murdoch and his expansionist plans.

Brewster, Deborah (1997), 'Double whammy kinks BSkyB's orbit', The Weekend Australian June 21-22. The problems of satellite TV in Europe.

Cooper, Peter (1997), 'Western at the weekends', Admap October. How Asian teengers live a double life.,p. During, Simon (1997), 'Popular culture on a global scale: a challenge for Cultural Studies?', Critical Inquiry 23, Summer. An interesting essay which argues that 'The global popular weakens academics capacity to make political judgements of cultural artifacts'.

Elliott, Michael (2000), 'A target too good to resist', Newsweek Jan 31. Investigates a new wave of anti-Americanism in Europe and Asia.

Farhi, Paul & Megan Rosenfeld (1998), 'American pop penetrates worldwide', Washington Post Oct 25. How American popular culture obliterates borders. This is a three-part series, which includes Shaton Waxman on 'Hollywood attuned to world markets'.

Fiske, John (1997), 'Global, national, global? Some problems of culture in a postmodern world', The Velvet Light Trap 40, Fall. How 'interlocalism' (social formations and cultures crossing borders) can counter homogenising globalisation.

Ferguson, Marjorie (1995), 'Media, markets, and identities: reflections on the global-local dialectic', Canadian Journal of Communication 20. Examines recurrent issues in debates about the 'conditions and processes of globalism and localism with regard to problems of multiple meaning, relations, and relative power'.

Gunkel, David J. & A.H. , (1997), 'Virtual geographies: the new worlds of cyberspace', Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14. Employs a well-used metaphor (eg Wark) and a cultural studies approach to discourses about new means of communication.

Hagerty, Bill (1999), 'Blair, God and the net', The Guardian Nov 29. Rupert Murdoch's visions of the future.

Isofides, Petros (1997), 'Methods of measuring media concentration', Media, Culture & Society 19. European strategies for assessing concentrations of ownership and media territories.

Kirby, Michael (1996), 'The impact of global media on the rule of law',Media Asia 23:3. A Justice of the High Court of Australia expands on the implications of cross-border technology.

"The New Global Media: Special Issue', The Nation Nov 29 1999. A valuable issue, with articles on Berlusconi, the international spread of HBO, Globo's domination of South America, and local resistence to global isation. Includes a fold-out ownership map.

Patience, Allan (1998), 'Warming to a global society', AQ Sept-Oct. Argues that 'Globalisation ... is a humanly contrived combination of factors, some good, others evil. We have to discriminate between the good and bad elements and work closely with the former to benefit ourselves and the world at large'.

Rothkopf, David (1997),'In praise of cultural imperialism?', Foreign Policy Summer. An unapologetic call to acknowledge the US as the best model nation.

Stenger, Josh (1997), 'Consuming the planet: Planet Hollywood, stars, and the global consumer culture', The Velvet Light Trap 40, Fall. How the Planet Hollywood chain assist in the American colonisation of the world.

Tracey, Michael & W.W. Redal (1995), 'The new parochialism: the triumph of the populist in the flow of international television', Canadian Journal of Communication 20. Uses the 'paradoxical case' of Canadian television viewing, to argue for a revision of traditional patterns of distribution of international television.



        
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