Detailed Outline of Chapter 2

Kaddouri Kaoutar
Dr. Ibahrine
Com 2303
Fall 2007

Detailed Outline of Chapter 2

Drawing a Bead on Global Communication Theories

I- Normative Theories
1- Based on a book entitled Four theories of the Press: Taxonomy was created.
2- Taxonomy means "dividing up all the various versions and aspects of a topic into systematic categories and sometimes sub-categories"
3- Media systems could be grouped in four categories
a- Authoritarian
b- Soviet
c- Liberal
d- Social Responsibility
4- News and information are the primary source of Media
a- Denotic and normative media
5- There are many types of print media
a- Comics
b- Trade magazines
c- Fashion magazines
d- Sports publications
6- Other models of media
a- Development model
b- Participatory media
II- A different approach: Comparing and contrasting Media
1- Soviet media had a strong overlap with media under other dictatorship with development media
2- Understanding the relation of mainstream media through four points
a- Political Power: under the Soviet model, Media was controlled heavily by the state
b- Economic Crisis: economic crisis in Russia was profound except in the 80s and 90s when oil revenues shot up.
3- Dramatic Social Transitions
a- As Russia went into transitions, media in Russia also was affected and went into transitions too in the 20th century.
b- The first media revolution started in the new revolutionary regime
c- At the time of the revolution, Russian media were on the cutting Edge.
d- In Stalin regime, media suffered under the new regime in the second transition after the revolution
III- A different Approach II: Globalization and Media
1- Different meanings of the word Globalization
a- Globalization signifies Structural economic changes
b- Globalization was used as cultural imperialism
2- people's cultural resistance is proof against cultural invasion
a- writer of this approach use the terms hybridization and hybridity
3- Transnational Labor migration generated tremendous cultural dislocation and expansion of cultural horizons among the migrant communities.
IV- A different Approach III: Small-Scale Alternative Media
1- Samizdat which means self published contained materials such as poems, plays, videocassettes that were banned under the Soviet Regime as they were not state published.