Terry Flew (2018). Understanding Global Media. Second Edition. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 227 pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-44653-4.

Abstract

Written by internationally recognised Australian scholar and Media and Communication professor Terry Flew, Understanding Global Media presents readers with a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of communications media and its relations to various aspects of modern societies. Some examples of these aspects are political and media cultures, media policies and national media systems, modern production and consumer culture, and the questions of iden-tities within a globalised world. Being the second edition of the 2007 original, the textbook proves to be a rather up-to-date source of information about global media. e author covers events such as the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, and analyses their lasting consequences and what we can learn from them on the subjects of, among other things, global media and communications, the role of nation-states and the dilemma between national and cosmopolitan identities, and even media economics