Meng, Bingchun and Rantanen, Terhi 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5345-6699
(2016)
The worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai: comparing cultures of communication in two cities before and after revolutions.
Communication, Culture & Critique, 9 (3).
323 - 340.
ISSN 1753-9129
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Abstract
In this article we propose an alternative model for comparative communication research. We first make the case for comparing cities, especially worlding cities outside what is traditionally called the “West.” We then explicate what we mean by comparing cultures of communication and why this offers an opportunity to reevaluate methodological nationalism and the cultural dynamics of worlding. We go on to use Shanghai and St. Petersburg as two historical examples to demonstrate how worlding cities (1) compel us to see cultural hybridization as a historical process; (2) offer good opportunities to observe contested elements of cultures; (3) make it possible to analyze cities as texts that are always connected with, but not necessarily contained by the nation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17539137 |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 International Communication Association |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2015 08:37 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 01:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/64064 |
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