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TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial: Encounters with Western media theory
AU - Keightley, Emily
AU - Li, Eva Cheuk-Yin
AU - Natale , Simone
AU - Punathambekar, Aswin
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Media, Culture and Society, 45 (2), 2023, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Media, Culture and Society page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/MCS on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - Beginning in 2020, the Crosscurrents section of this journal featured 10 provocative essays on the theme of “Encounters in Western Media Theory.” These essays stemmed from scholars’ engagements with various canonical texts in media, cultural, and communication studies that took the Anglophone Global North as a taken-for-granted site for making sweeping theoretical claims. In this editorial, we reflect on the critiques and arguments that scholars have developed to move past debates about “internationalizing” and “de-westernizing” the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Taken together, the essays published in this themed section grapple with the shifting terrain of academic knowledge production and the potential for redefining practices of reading, citation, and teaching.
AB - Beginning in 2020, the Crosscurrents section of this journal featured 10 provocative essays on the theme of “Encounters in Western Media Theory.” These essays stemmed from scholars’ engagements with various canonical texts in media, cultural, and communication studies that took the Anglophone Global North as a taken-for-granted site for making sweeping theoretical claims. In this editorial, we reflect on the critiques and arguments that scholars have developed to move past debates about “internationalizing” and “de-westernizing” the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Taken together, the essays published in this themed section grapple with the shifting terrain of academic knowledge production and the potential for redefining practices of reading, citation, and teaching.
KW - communication studies
KW - cultural studies
KW - decolonization
KW - de-Westernization
KW - Global South
KW - global media
KW - media studies
KW - postcolonialism
U2 - 10.1177/01634437221149821
DO - 10.1177/01634437221149821
M3 - Editorial
VL - 45
SP - 406
EP - 412
JO - Media, Culture and Society
JF - Media, Culture and Society
SN - 0163-4437
IS - 2
ER -