@article{339085,
      author = {Norris, Pippa. and Inglehart, Ronald.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/339085},
      title = {Cosmopolitan communications : cultural diversity in a  globalized world /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {Publisher description: "Societies around the world have  experienced a flood of information from diverse channels  originating beyond local communities and even national  borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of  cosmopolitan communications. For more than half a century  conventional interpretations, [the authors] argue, have  commonly exaggerated the potential threats arising from  this process. A series of firewalls protects national  cultures. This book develops a new theoretical framework  for understanding cosmopolitan communications and uses it  to identify the conditions under which global  communications are most likely to endanger cultural  diversity. The authors examine empirical evidence at both  the societal level and the individual level, examining the  outlook and beliefs of people in a wide range of societies.  The study draw on evidence from the World Values Survey,  which covers 90 societies in all major regions worldwide  from 1981 to 2007. The conclusion considers the  implications of the authors' findings for cultural  politics."},
      recid = {339085},
      pages = {xv, 429 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2009},
}