Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context (Critical Media Studies Institutions, Politics, and Culture) - Hardcover

Gibson, Timothy A.; Lowes, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742540618 ISBN 13: 9780742540613

Verlag: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

City leaders now confront a global competition for economic investment, and urban elites are casting about for strategies that promise to secure a share of this future of global economic growth. However, many of these strategies are largely symbolic in nature. City leaders, for example, compete for the Olympics so they can broadcast spectacular urban vistas to global television audiences. Officials pour public funds into tourist amenities to cultivate an image of vitality and renewal. But how are the local politics of urban redevelopment intertwined with the global politics of circulating vital urban images? Urban Communication brings together scholars from communication, cultural studies, and urban sociology to explore the symbolic dimensions of contemporary city-building, drawing on case studies from around the world.

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Timothy A. Gibson is assistant professor of communication at George Mason University. Mark Lowes is associate professor of communication at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0742540618
• ISBN 13: 9780742540613
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Rowman & Littlefield; https://rowman.com/; ; 4501 Forbes Blvd, Suite 200; Lanham; MD; 20706; USA
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