An associate professor of telecommunications in UGA’s Grady College has published a new book focused on global culture and communication.
The Logics of Globalization: Studies in International Communication, written by Anandam Kavoori, develops a critical language through which to interrogate the flow of global media culture. The 230-page book draws on transnational cultural studies and offers an analysis of popular media culture—focusing on film, video games, music, sports, cell phones, travel journalism and performance.
“The book provides a theoretical framework for connecting the local and the global, across media forms and practice,” said Kavoori, who specializes in the study of international communication. “It is important to examine how the digital and the global are connecting in new disjunctive ways—and the essays in this book are part of trying to map those connections.”
The book invites students to understand the complexity of global media representation—at the heart of which is the search for identity. Kavoori is the editor or author of seven previous books including, most recently, Global Bollywood, published by New York University Press.
