Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)

摘要

Since its institutional beginnings after the Second World War, debates in international communication research have periodically returned to the concept of 'flow', with calls to unite theory and method in more sophisticated ways. At times romancing the Westphalian order, at others trivializing it, the nation-state has been at the centre of things. Not the 'city', the 'place' or the 'space' but the 'nation-state' has been the cornerstone of models, and the organizing principle of research. And by its very definition, the nation-state as model privileges the system, the institution and the media - rather than communication in a wider sense or region in a more abstract one. At the time of setting up Bretton Woods, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the UN, there were good reasons for this nation-state focus, as (or instance the fact that media policy was usually structured around the nation-state system, and the fact that nation and slate were cornerstones in other areas of social science and the humanities.