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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

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A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-libe...

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Product ID:9780761968795
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:News as Entertainment
Subtitle:The Rise of Global Infotainment
Authors:Author: Daya Thussu
Page Count:224
Subjects:Politics and government, Politics & government
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A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.
"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, Southern Illinois University

"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, The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ''dumbing down'' discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which ''soft news'' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

Chapters include a historical appraisal of infotainment; the infrastructure for its globalization as well as coverage of recent wars on television news as high-tech infotainment and the growing synergies between Hollywood and Bollywood-originated infotainment. A ''global infotainment sphere'' is emerging, the book argues, within which competing versions of news - from 24/7 news networks to bloggers - coexist. Accessible, engagingly written and robustly argued, the book combines analyses of theoretical debates on infotainment with extensive and up-to-date comparative data.


Imprint Name:SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher Name:SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2009-03-09