Cosmopolitan Communications by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart - 9780521493680

Cosmopolitan CommunicationsCultural Diversity in a Globalized World\nAuthor(s): Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521493680, 978-0521493680\nSynopsis\nSocieties around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century, conventional interpretations, Norris and Inglehart argue, have commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from this process. A series of firewalls protect national cultures. This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and uses it to identify the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity. The authors analyze empirical evidence from both the societal level and the.