Professor Joseph D. Straubhaar:
Global TV, Film and Music: Convergences and Differences
Guest lecture Friday, November 9, 12.30-14.00
Kroghstræde 3, 4.130
This talk will examine theories of cultural globalization in terms of a comparison of the cultural
industries of film, television, and music. While extensive convergence and globalization of these
industries can be seen in the USA, the three media forms show very striking differences in many
parts of the world, reflecting national and regional policies, different patterns of national
industries and institutions, different abilities of the USA to maintain dominance of exports in the
three media, and different articulations and mobilizations of audience interest and identification.
The role of audience identity and identification will be considered, comparing the USA, Brazil and
the Nordic countries.
Professor Joseph D. Straubhaar is the Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of
Communications in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
He is also Associate Director for International Programs of the Telecommunication and
Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas. He was the Director of the Center
for Brazilian Studies within the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, 2003-2006.
His primary teaching, research and writing interests are in global media, international
communication and cultural theory, information societies and the digital divide in the U. S.
and other countries, and global television production and flow. His graduate teaching
includes media theory, global media, comparative media systems, international
telecommunications systems, Latin American media, and research methods. His
undergraduate teaching covers the same range plus introduction to mass communication and the information
society. He does research in Brazil, other Latin America countries, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has taken
student groups to Latin America and Asia. He has done seminars abroad on media research, television
programming strategies, and telecommunications privatization. He is on the editorial board for the Howard
Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Studies in Latin American Popular
Culture, and Revista INTERCOM. His book, World Television from Global to Local, has been published by Sage in
May 2007. For further information, please visit http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/straubhaar/
This guest lecture is arranged in cooperation between Dep. of Language & Culture and Dep. of
Communication. We hope to see students and researchers from both departments!
Gunhild Agger