Isaac A. Blankson & Patrick Murphy 
Negotiating Democracy [PDF ebook] 
Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Media and Democracy in the Age of Globalization
Patrick D.Murphy

PART I. REGIONAL TRENDS IN MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

1. Media Independence and Pluralism in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges of Democratization and Liberalization
Isaac A. Blankson

2. Vestiges of Authoritarianism: Monopoly Broadcasting in Central America
Rick Rockwell

3. Emerging Media Transformations in the New Europe: Past and Future Challenges
Noemi Marin and Laura Lengel

PART II. STATE CONTROL, LIBERALIZATION, AND DEMOCRATIC REFORM

4. An Awakening in Cambodia: From Failed State to a Media-Rich Society
Drew O. Mc Daniel

5. First Democracy in Chinese History: Media’s Role in the Democratization of Taiwan
Kuldip R. Rampal

6. Nigeria: Equivocating while Opening the Broadcast Liberalization Gates
Chuka Onwumechili

7. Media, the State, and the Prodemocracy Movement in Iran
Mehdi Semati

8. Transformations and Development of the Korean Broadcasting Media
Doobo Shim and Dal Yong Jin

PART III. TELEVISION, RADIO, GLOBALIZATION, AND DEMOCRACY

9. Reality Television, Politics, and Democratization in the Arab World
Marwan M. Kraidy

10. Democracy Sponsored by NAFTA?
Mexican Television in the Free Trade Era
Kenton T. Wilkinson

11. First Green Is Always Gold: An Examination of the First Private National Channel in Bulgaria
Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Raicheva-Stover

12. Globalization and the Privatization of Radio in Greece: Influences, Issues and Consequences
Judy Rene Sims

Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Index

At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Isaac A. Blankson is Associate Professor of Communication and Public Relations and Patrick D. Murphy is Professor of Mass Communications. Murphy is the coeditor (with Marwan M. Kraidy) of Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives.