New Zealand as Middle Earth
Local and Global Popular Communication in a Small Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12780393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Zanker (corresponding author), Geoff Lealand (0000-0002-0274-3321) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-72 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1540-5702 • E-ISSN: 1540-5710 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15405710pc0101_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2074282876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The shift of the research gaze from First World concerns and research questions to the different imperatives of a small nation such as New Zealand enables scrutiny of many conventional assumptions made about globalizing processes, children's evolving public spaces, and commodified culture. New Zealand provides an invaluable site to explore the processes creating the postmodern cultural experiences of globalized popular communication. Children in New Zealand respond as joyously as children in San Jose and Sheffield to the pleasures of global popular communication, but we argue that the global can only be tracked in the ways it emerges in a variety of local/ities. Researching the particular experiences of children in a small South Pacific nation also highlights the range of challenges faced by public intellectuals in a period of rapid global technical, economic, and cultural change
Commodification · Economy · Media studies · Political science · Postmodernism · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |