Communicating the Nation

National Topographies of Global Media Landscapes

Inka Salovaara-Moring
Anna Roosvall
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The nation is one of the most resilient concepts in our understanding of the world and its societies. Politics, sports and cultural events, in news as well as in fiction, are largely structured by the national logic. Internationalism – be it in representation, production or consumption – does not challenge the privileged position of the nation. Globalising processes do offer an alternative to the primacy of the nation, but have so far been unable to overcome its dominance. The nation’s resilience is, in part, due to its continuing relevance: ontologically, it offers a sense of territorial stability and security while epistemologically it can supply a sense of familiarity and order in the global landscape.

This volume provides cutting edge analysis of old and new architectures of the nation and its mediated presence in everyday life. In an age of alleged globalisation, nations and nation-states have been claimed to be out-dated. However, the proclamation of the end of the nation (-state) has been premature. Eschewing fashionable obituaries for media, geography and the nation, leading media scholars explore the complex ideological and spatial changes in contemporary understandings of the nation. The nation can be seen as a nodal point of media discourse. Hence the power, the politics and the poetics of the nation will be the subject of this book.

 

Content

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Anna Roosvall, Inka Salovaara-Moring

 

I. The Making of Nations

Methodological Inter-Nationalism in Comparative Media Research. Flow Studies in International Communication
Terhi Rantanen

The Nation as Media Event
Britta Timm Knudsen

The Mediation of Death and the Imagination of National Community
Lilie Chouliaraki

Between Community and Commodity. Nationalism and Nation Branding
Göran Bolin, Per Ståhlberg

 

II. Nations and Empires Revisited

The Future is a Foreign Place. Topographies of Post-Communism, Nation and Media
Inka Salovaara-Moring

Imperial Glory is Back? Retelling the Russian National Narrative by Representation and Communication
Ivan Zassoursky

Holy Trinity: Nation Pentagon, Screen
Toby Miller

Vox Americana. Why the Media Forget, and Why it is Important to Remember
Andrew Calabrese

 

III. National Selves and Others

The National vs. the Global. Producing National History in a Global Television Era
Tamar Ashuri

National Television News of the World. Challenges and Consequences
Kristina Riegert

Image-Nation. The National, the Cultural and the Global in Foreign News Slide-shows
Anna Roosvall

The Disciplined Imaginary. The Nation Rejuvenated for the Global Condition
Anu Kantola

The Authors

 

Book cover: Communicating the Nation

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