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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824186103321

Titolo

Diasporas and diplomacy : cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) / / edited by Marie Gillespie and Alban Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-44864-0

1-283-91931-1

0-203-12515-0

1-136-44865-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Culture, economy and the social

Altri autori (Persone)

GillespieMarie <1953->

WebbAlban

Disciplina

384.540941

Soggetti

International broadcasting - Great Britain - History

Mass media - Audiences

Radio in propaganda - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. National interests with a global reach : projection, persuasion and intonation -- pt. 2. Cultures of diplomacy in the post-war Middle East and Asia -- pt. 3. Corporate cosmopolitanism and the global conversation.

Sommario/riassunto

Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the 'corporate cosmopolitanism' that has characterized the work of the BBC's international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 - from radio to the Internet.A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcastin