Global Communication and Cultural Desensitisation: Repackaging Western Values for Non-Western Markets

Global communication is widely perceived as an instrument to disseminate Western values in the developing world. The "Wheel of Fortune" and "Who Wants to be a Millionnaire" licensed to Malaysian Television stations, though the language and the word puzzles were localised, carried...

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Main Author: Galander, Mahmoud M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2008
In: Intellectual discourse
Year: 2008, Volume: 16, Issue: 1
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