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This edited volume provides a heuristic analysis of the challenges facing regulators and media institutions. It explores the nature of the laws and regulations straining under the new technological realities, considers the changes already made to accommodate the new media landscape, and examines new directions and approaches to the regulation of convergent media technologies and media institutions.--[book cover]

The global communication environment of heroes / Susan Drucker & Gary Gumpert -- Heroes and/as communication / Lance Strate -- Global identification with celebrity heroes / William J. Brown & Benson P. Fraser -- U.S. and European heroism compared / John Dean -- From distant heroes to intimate friends / Joshua Meyrowitz -- The wrinkle theory / Gary Gumpert -- The two faces of Osama bin Laden / Mahmoud Eid -- Female heroes at ground zero / Valerie Smith -- Heroes in a global world / Susan Duffy -- A return of the real? / Cheryl Harris & Alison Alexander -- Defining the heroic in a context of Arab-Islamic values / Susan Swan & Timothy Walters -- Orality versus monotheism or media versus narratives / Eva Berger -- Menachem Begin / Sondra M. Rubenstein & Adam Ehrlich -- Hero or villain, but always a celebrity / Maria Way -- Gods in all things / Todd Holden -- Shrek as a test of the universality of the hero's quest / Steven C. Combs -- The mediated sports hero / Susan J. Drucker -- From hero to celebrity / Philip Drake -- Celebrity law / Susan Drucker

Every media development alters the availability and nature of traditional private and public places. The 20th century has witnessed the transformation of the home from sanctuary to communication hub. Such changes have altered the way in which domestic space is experienced. The integration of media technologies requires a reorganization of the home as social space. Communication technologies have reshaped the uses of domestic space and redefined the division of home and the workplace. The experience of home environments is no longer solely shaped by the physical environment but by the constantly expanding nonphysical world of connection. This article superimposes a communication analysis of domestic design and proposes integrating media technology and the changing communication landscape into any analysis of space in the home environment.

The military operations of 1974 in Cyprus led to the formation of two autonomous areas houding Turkish Cypriots in the north and the Greek Cypriots in the south. The island is divided by the "Green Line", patrolled by U.N. peace keeping forces.Movement is blocked and communication severed. There are multiple and conflicting Cypriot identities and feelings of nationalism ranging from pride in being Cypriots, to feelings of connection to Hellenic heritage, and cultural along with political and economic ties to Greece. A Turkish Cypriot identity linked to a distinct religious and linguistic background co-exists with Turkish settlers living in the independent north yet tied to Turkey. This article examines the division from a communication perspective taking into account language, religion, the visual landscape and the media landscape on each side ofthe "Green Line" along with interlocking media landscapes with Greece or Turkey in order to explore influences shaping collective identity and nationalism.

Art and the Global City brings together a host of academics (communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city" by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the rapidly expanding global landscape. Spanning four continents (North America, Europe/Eurasia, Asia, and Australia) and multiple cities (from Chicago to Singapore, Moscow, Seoul, and Melbourne), these case studies focus the reader's attention to the evolution of art in public spaces and the rhetorical power of new artistic visions and conglomerations in the urban landscape.