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Diasporas and Diplomacy : Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136448652
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  • 384.540941
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Contents:
Intro -- Diasporas and Diplomacy Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Corporate Cosmopolitanism: Diasporas and Diplomacy at the BBC World Service, 1932-2012 -- Part One National interests with a global reach: projection, persuasion and intonation -- 1 'It is a real joy to get listening of any kind from the homeland': BBC radio and British diasporic audiences in the 1930s -- 2 The colonisation of the BBC: diasporic Britons at the BBC External Services, c. 1932-1956 -- 3 'Frau Wernicke' at the BBC: wartime satire and propaganda -- 4 Les Français parlent aux Français : voices from London on the persecution of the Jews -- 5 The BBC Polish Section and the reporting of Solidarity, 1980-1983 -- Part Two Cultures of diplomacy in the post-war Middle East and Asia -- 6 The BBC Arabic Service's dilemmatic triangle: competing elites, conflicting priorities, contested media strategies -- 7 The BBC World Service from wartime propaganda to public diplomacy: the case of Iran -- 8 The BBC in South Asia: from the end of Empire to the Cold War -- 9 Language, nationhood and diaspora at the BBC Urdu Service 1940-2010 -- 10 Diaspora calling the homeland? The BBC Persian Service, cosmopolitanism and music listening in Iran -- Part Three Corporate cosmopolitanism and the global conversation -- 11 Communication for development and public diplomacy: insights from an Afghan radio drama -- 12 What kind of 'global conversation'? Participation, democratic deepening and public diplomacy through BBC World Service online forums: an examination of mediated global talk about religion and politics -- 13 Discussions on BBC Chinese Have Your Say forums: national identity and international broadcasting in the interactive media era -- Index.
Summary: This volume links contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism to historical and comparative case studies on international broadcasting. Through the prism of the BBC World Service, it illuminates how diasporic broadcasters at the BBC translate and produce news in dozens of languages and, as skilled cultural intermediaries, are integral to British diplomacy.
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Intro -- Diasporas and Diplomacy Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012) -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Corporate Cosmopolitanism: Diasporas and Diplomacy at the BBC World Service, 1932-2012 -- Part One National interests with a global reach: projection, persuasion and intonation -- 1 'It is a real joy to get listening of any kind from the homeland': BBC radio and British diasporic audiences in the 1930s -- 2 The colonisation of the BBC: diasporic Britons at the BBC External Services, c. 1932-1956 -- 3 'Frau Wernicke' at the BBC: wartime satire and propaganda -- 4 Les Français parlent aux Français : voices from London on the persecution of the Jews -- 5 The BBC Polish Section and the reporting of Solidarity, 1980-1983 -- Part Two Cultures of diplomacy in the post-war Middle East and Asia -- 6 The BBC Arabic Service's dilemmatic triangle: competing elites, conflicting priorities, contested media strategies -- 7 The BBC World Service from wartime propaganda to public diplomacy: the case of Iran -- 8 The BBC in South Asia: from the end of Empire to the Cold War -- 9 Language, nationhood and diaspora at the BBC Urdu Service 1940-2010 -- 10 Diaspora calling the homeland? The BBC Persian Service, cosmopolitanism and music listening in Iran -- Part Three Corporate cosmopolitanism and the global conversation -- 11 Communication for development and public diplomacy: insights from an Afghan radio drama -- 12 What kind of 'global conversation'? Participation, democratic deepening and public diplomacy through BBC World Service online forums: an examination of mediated global talk about religion and politics -- 13 Discussions on BBC Chinese Have Your Say forums: national identity and international broadcasting in the interactive media era -- Index.

This volume links contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism to historical and comparative case studies on international broadcasting. Through the prism of the BBC World Service, it illuminates how diasporic broadcasters at the BBC translate and produce news in dozens of languages and, as skilled cultural intermediaries, are integral to British diplomacy.

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