“…It re-examines dominant approaches and their legacies of global/local and center/periphery, and offers new directions for understanding television’s contemporary incarnations.The chapters in this collection take up the format phenomena from around the globe, including the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and West Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Comparing screenwriting in the US and UK by Lisa Neeley Directory Listings Production Companies USA UK Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand Representation USA UK Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand Courses USA UK Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand Societies and Organizations USA UK Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand Festivals USA UK Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand Awards and Prizes USA UK Canada Ireland Australia New Zealand Recommended Reading Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conceiving a re-assemblage of teenage pregnancy and parenting / Within and apart: re/positioning the education of teenage parents in Aotearoa New Zealand / What's happening to my body?: the growing, glowing and grotesque teenage belly / Teen mothering in the United States: fertile ground for shifting the paradigm / 'It changed my life': rething the consequences of teenage fatherhood / Irish television and the assemblage of personal narratives of teenage pregnancy and abortion / The construction of teenage parenting in the Republic of Ireland / Irish travellers and teenage pregnancy: a feminist, cultural, relativist analysis / Personal decisions, responsible mothering: un-picking key decisions made by young mothers / Teenagers, sexualities-education assemblages and sexual citizenship: and new materialist analysis / What if becoming a teenage parent saved your life? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lent -- India / Nitin Govil -- Australia and New Zealand / David Newman…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Africa -- African-American Women -- Freed Women -- Late Nineteenth -- Century -- Slavery -- Theory, Issues, and Historiography -- Twentieth Century -- Agriculture -- Agricultural Workers -- Farms and Farmers -- Rural Life -- Art -- Crafts -- Visual Fine Arts -- Film, Television, Photography -- Literature -- Music -- Poetry -- Theatre -- Asia East (China, Japan, Korea) -- South (Bangladesh, India, etc.) -- Southeast (Burma, Vietnam, etc.) -- Australia/New Zealand -- Biography -- Individual and Collective Biographies -- Journals and Diaries -- Letters -- Oral History -- Birth Control -- l Abortion -- Fertility -- Infanticide -- Material Culture -- Reproductive Rights and Options -- Canada -- Economics (see also Work) -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia -- Europe -- Latin America -- Middle East/Near East -- North America -- Soviet Union -- Education Methods -- Students -- Teachers -- Ethnicity -- Asian -- European -- General Immigrants -- Jewish -- Latin American -- Europe -- Central Europ -- e Eastern Europe -- France -- Great Britain -- Northern Europe -- Southern Europe -- Family -- Childbirth -- Childcare -- Demographics -- Ethnicity -- Infant Mortality -- International -- Kinship -- Motherhood -- Feminism -- Biography -- General -- International Organizations -- Politics -- Religion -- Theory -- Friendship -- Health -- Health Care/Preventive Health Care -- Illness -- Maternity/Childbirth -- Medical Issues -- Psychology -- Latin America -- Law/Crime -- Courts, Trials, and Prisons -- Divorce, Family, and Marriage -- Female Criminality -- Lawyers -- Reproductive Rights and Illegitimacy -- Work and Protective Legislation -- Lifestages and Lifestyles (except married) -- Life Courses -- Old Age -- Never-Married Women -- Widowhood -- Youth -- Marriage/Divorce -- Courtship -- Demographics -- Divorce -- Ethnicity -- International -- Polygamy -- Material and Popular Culture -- Architecture/City Planning/Neighborhoods -- Books/Literary Images/Literature -- Crafts/Quilts/Embroidery Fashion/Textiles/Beauty -- Culture -- Food -- Photographs/Paintings/Visual Images/Movies Popular Culture/Mass Media/Advertising -- Science and Technology -- Middle East/Near East -- Military/War -- Home Front -- Jobs -- Peace -- Activism -- War Service -- Politics -- First Ladies -- Government Policy -- Political Participation -- International Relations -- Monarchies -- Office Holders Parties -- Women's Rights -- Pornography -- Professions -- Professional Career Choices -- White Collar Work -- Prostitution -- Religion -- Catholocism Missions and Missionaries -- Protestantism -- Religious Issues and Witchcraft -- Sexuality Ideology -- Lesbianism (see also Lifestages and Lifestyles) -- Practices -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Virginity/Celibacy -- Social Reform/Community -- Organizing -- Family Planning and Aid To Children -- Health Reform -- Industrial Reform -- Moral Reform -- Social Movements/General Temperance -- Women's Clubs -- Women's Rights Movements -- Soviet Union -- Sports -- Suffrage -- Anti-Suffrage -- International Suffrage -- United States -- National -- East -- Midwest -- South -- West -- Construction/Deconstruction/Reconstruction -- Women's History/Feminist History -- Women's History Methodology and Other Disciplines -- Cross-Cultural Theory and Women's History -- Biography Women's History and Labor -- Historiography and Sources -- U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…But is it radio? New forms and voices in the audio private sphere / Michele Hilmes -- Podcasting as a hybrid cultural form between old and new / Tiziano Bonini -- Listening back : materiality, mediatization and method in radio history / Kate Lacey -- Radio and sound studies : how we got here / Susan Douglas -- "Pause and reflect" - practice-as-research methods in radio and podcast studies / Mia Lindgren and Britta Jorgensen -- Understanding radio archives : coalitional historiography and sound memory work / Josh Shepperd -- Radio and democratic citizenship / David Goodman -- For anyone who's someone : early radio's democratic promise / Len Kuffert -- Radio in New Zealand : the neoliberal experiment comes of age / Matt Mollgaard and Rufus McEwan -- Forming networks : national radio networks - public, state, and commercial / Anne MacLennan -- Listening to radio in South Africa, 1920s-1994 / Thokozani Mhlambi -- Transborder broadcasting : warfare, propaganda and public diplomacy on the airwaves / Nelson Ribeiro -- Reactionary conservatism and legacies of struggle in US radio history / Derek Vaillant -- When big business was in show business : US radio before television / Cynthia B. …”

“…The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera. …”