Friday, 7th February 2025, 12:30pm (HKT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom
Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication (2024) examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics. As an intersection between communication and international relations, it bridges the existing gap in scholarship and highlights the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting the geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers. One central theme that emerges in the book is the continuity of asymmetries in power relations that can be traced back to 19th-century European imperialism, manifested in its various incarnations from ‘liberal’ to ‘neo-liberal’, to ‘digital’ imperialism. The book includes a discussion of the post–Cold War US-led transformation of the hardware and software of global communication and how it has been challenged by the ‘rise of the rest’, especially China.
DAYA THUSSU is Professor of International Communication at the Hong Kong Baptist University and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Author or editor of 20 books, he was Inaugural Disney Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Prior to that, for many years he was Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London. He has been, since 2005, the managing editor of the journal Global Media and Communication.
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Organised by Centre for Media and Communication Research, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.
