JOUR 475: Global Media--Basic Sources

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China, England, Iran, Mexico

Global media : menace or Messiah? / David Demers
Call Number: P96 E25 D46 2002 (4th Floor Lied Library)

Understanding Global Media / Terry Flew
Call Number: P96 I5 F59 2007(4th Floor Lied Library)

Global media discourse : a critical introduction / David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen
Call Number: P96 I5 M235 2007 (4th Floor Lied Library)

Corporate reputation and the news media : agenda-setting within business news coverage in developed, emerging, and frontier markets / edited by Craig E. Carroll
Call Number: HD58.7 C6437 2011 (4th floor, Lied Library)

Latin politics, global media / Elizabeth Fox and Silvio Waisbord, editors
Call Number: P95.82 L29 L38 2002 (4th floor Lied Library)

The handbook of Spanish language media / edited by Alan B. Albarran
Call Number: P92 L3 H36 2009 (4th floor, Lied Library)

Try some keyword searching in the library catalog. Here are some examples:

• global media
• Brazil and media
• Egypt and television
• media globalization
• Japan and internet
• radio and Israel
• Venezuela and media ownership

Examples of Subject Searches:

Television and globalization -- Japan

Television broadcasting -- Latin America

Some Suggestions for Searching for Your Country's Media Regulations & Financing

From the UNLV Libraries Catalog: http://library.unlv.edu

Mass Media Policy

Mass media policy -- Latin America

Mass Media Political Aspects

Journalism -- Iran -- History -- 20th century

Press -- Iran -- History -- 20th century

Mass media -- Political aspects -- Latin America

 Try Some of These Keyword Searches:

• media and ownership
• media and ownership and international
• mass media and ownership
• mass media and financing

A Few Examples
International communications : a media literacy approach
UNLV Book Stacks, 4th floor P96.I5 S55 2004

Comparing media from around the world
UNLV Book Stacks, 4th floor P90 .M254 2006

UNLV Libraries Databases

There are quite a few academic & trade journal articles that cover the topic of media financing and regulations in other countries. Try these keyword searches listed below in the following UNLV Libraries research databases: Communication and Mass Media Complete, Communication Studies, and ComAbstracts.

Let's say you wanted to research media regulations & financing in Taiwan. Try these keywords when searching the databases:

Suggested Keyword Searches:

• Bolivia and economics and television
• Argentina and media and financing
• Costa Rica and television and government
• Venezuela  and media and regulations
• Guatemala and economics and newspapers
  

Google Scholar
In addition to UNLV Libraries research databases, you may want to explore Google Scholar
If you haven't used it before, you may want to check out UNLV Libraries Google Scholar FAQ. Try some general keywords, such as:

• international media financing
• international media regulations
• Chile and media and financing
• Bolivia and television and government

Here are a few sample articles that look promising: The Barriers to Media Opening in Latin America.
Political Communication; Jan-Mar2005, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p9-25,

The Barriers to Media Opening in Latin America.
Political Communication; Jan-Mar2005, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p9-25,

Who Owns the Media? S Djankov, C McLiesh, T Nenova, A Shleifer
The Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 46, Oct. 2003