Includes bibliographical references and index.

The determinants of international news flow and coverage. Introduction: international news coverage and Americans' image of the world / Guy J. Golan, Thomas J. Johnson, and Wayne Wanta -- Changing global media landscape, unchanging theories?: international communication research and paradigm testing / Tsan-Kuo Chang -- Determining the scope of "international" communication: a (living) systems approach / Shelton A. Gunaratne -- International news determinants in U.S. news media in the post-Cold War era / Kuang-Kuo Chang and Tien-Tsung Lee -- The impact of global news coverage on international aid / Yon Soo Lim and George A. Barnett -- Coverage of foreign elections in the United States: a model of international news flow / Wayne Wanta and Guy J. Golan -- Determinants of international news coverage / Guy J. Golan -- The language of international news. How could so much produce so little?: foreign affairs reporting in the wake of 9/11 / Shahira Fahmy -- Patterns and news quality: international stories reported in American media / Renee Martin-Kratzer and Esther Thorson -- The influence of contextual factors on the selection of news frames: a cross-national approach to the news coverage of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) / Kuang-Kuo Chang... [et al.] -- News as culture: a comparative study of newspaper coverage of the war in Iraq / Salma I. Ghanem -- Frame building and media framing of the joint counterterrorism: comparing United States-Uganda efforts / Yusuf Kalyango Jr. -- See no evil, hear no evil, judge as evil?: examining whether Al-Jazeera English-language web site users transfer their belief in its credibility to its satellite network / Thomas J. Johnson and Shahira Fahmy -- An exploration of the determinants of international news coverage in Australia's online media / Xiaopeng Wang -- Blogs as stealth dissent?: "Eighteen touch dog newspaper" and the tactics, ambiguity, and limits of Internet resistance in China / Wei Zha and David D. Perlmutter -- Strategic global communication. Global integration or local responsiveness?: multinational corporations' public relations strategies and cases / Joon Soo Lim -- Coordination and control of global public relations to manage cross-national conflict shifts: a multidisciplinary theoretical perspective for research and practice / Juan-Carlos Molleda and Alexander Laskin -- Netizens unite!: strategic escalation of conflict to manage a cultural crisis / Sooyoung Cho and Glen T. Cameron -- Communicating with global publics: building a theoretical framework for international public relations / Paul S. Lieber and Colin Higgins -- Columbia's Juan Valdez campaign: brand revitalization through "authenticity" and "glocal" strategic communications / Juan-Carlos Molleda and Marilyn S. Roberts -- The influence of mobile phone advertising on dependency: a cross-cultural study of mobile phone use between American and Chinese youth / Ran Wei -- Fractured images