Hybridity, or the cultural logic of globalization

The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kraidy, Marwan, 1972- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press 2005.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425207706719
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Cultural Hybridity and International Communication; 2 Scenarios of Global Culture; 3 The Trails and Tales of Hybridity; 4 Corporate Transculturalism; 5 The Cultural and Political Economies of Hybrid Media Texts; 6 Structure, Reception, and Identity: On Arab-Western Dialogism; 7 Hybridity without Guarantees: Toward Critical Transculturalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index