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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media
Edited by Juan Llamas-RodriguezMedia Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin America to Indigenous film and media from the US and Canada.
Media studies courses, particularly introductory courses, are often narrowly focused on US and Western European canons. Instructors for introductory media studies courses wishing to expand the offerings in their curricula will find in these essays new ways of approaching foundational concepts and issues in the field, including globalization, social difference, and diverse media cultures. Scholars wishing to expand their research into specific media forms or representational issues can also turn to these case studies for approaches from beyond the US. By including a variety of media and several geographical areas, the collection introduces readers to the formal, technological, and cultural diversity of global media studies.
Edited by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez with contributions from Anthony Adah and Añulika Agina, Maria Corrigan, Benjamin Han, Anna Shah Hoque, Meryem Kamil, Angelica Marie Lawson, Lilia Adriana Perez Limon, Sonia Robles, Kuhu Tanvir, David Tenorio, and Rachel van der Merwe.
"Media Travels advances a thoroughly global perspective that moves beyond the desire to make the world fit conveniently into pre-existing maps of it by proposing a critical model that offers nuanced insight into global dispositions towards media. In the best tradition of global media scholarship, it brings together chapters that think across locations, histories, genres, and objects of analysis to challenge familiar frameworks and generate new and grounded insights."
—Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
"Media Travels explores globalized mediascapes—the flows, connections, disjunctures, intermedial transfigurations, and encounters between macro and micro-level forces that shape these—through grounded analyses of localized examples, and it emphasizes diversity, fragmentation, and incompleteness as constitutive of any viable understanding of the global. The book’s novelty lies in its use of contextually sensitive close reading as an analytical and pedagogical strategy for mapping the global through the local. Examining a wide range of media objects or phenomena from different parts of the world through a variety of theoretical lenses, its case-studies collectively illustrate a multi-faceted, critically global approach to mediascapes."
—Manishita Dass, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Media Travels strives to make media studies a more global enterprise that extends well beyond the west, an intervention that is both timely and important."
—Andrew Simon, Dartmouth College
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and associate director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and Y Tu Mamá También: A Queer Film Classic (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025).
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