Sakurai, Takuya (2017) Cultural factors in the flow of international news: a review of the literature. In: International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16), 18th - 20th September 2016, Istana Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

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Abstract

This paper offers a review of the literature of international news flow, and surveys how the previous studies have attempted to capture “cultural factors” influencing the flow.The factors are grouped into four types of variables: language, former colonial tie, ethnicity, and geographical proximity.This paper argues that cultural factors cannot be significant without economic interests in the era of post-Cold War, that the structure of international news is imbalanced because a few powerful countries dominate the international news market, and that international news reduces cultural varieties to the singular international realities disseminated by the media of such countries.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	Published in SHS Web of Conferences 33, 00008 (2017)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	School of Multimedia Technology & Communication
Depositing User:	Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
Date Deposited:	08 Feb 2017 03:34
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2017 03:34
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20891

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