Global Media, Local Voices: The Dynamics of Diversity

Dear Colleagues,

At a time when the US Government is seeking to prevent the city of Stockholm from embracing cultural diversity and to shut down its own media presence in order to limit points of view, the value of diversity is greater than ever. This is particularly so in journalism, which is in its own crisis/Golden Age (depending on one’s point of view!). Major political–economic and technological change are underway. Ever-greater numbers of people are both reading journalism and seeking to be journalists. The ongoing power of the global media is real—especially if we include corporate platforms in the definition—even as more and more local forms of writing, speaking, and recording bloom.

This Special Issue will reach across the globe and across genres to investigate these and other questions via a blend of political economy, ethnography, and textual analysis. It will not take the Global North or Global South as implicit price deflators or models for the rest of the world, but as zones of cultural imperialism and colonialism, state and corporate power, independence, solidarity, work, and innovation. It will deem journalism important because of the profession’s centrality to democracy, knowledge, and pleasure alike. Contributions may take the form of original research articles or reviews of the field.

Potential Topics:

• The impact of new technology;
• precarity in journalism;
• violence against reporters;
• the Global North and the Global South;
• journalism studies by region;
• gender, race, class, and journalism;
• the past;
• the future;
• rethinking media and cultural imperialism;
• climate change.

Prof. Dr. Toby Miller
Guest Editor

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• journalism
• platform capitalism
• global media
• diversity
• technological change
• media and cultural imperialism and colonialism
• work