Global Media Perceptions of the United States

Yahya R. Kamalipour is a noted global media and communication scholar and current professor of communications and former chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at North Carolina A&T State University. For 28 years he served as professor and head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Northwest. His areas of interest and research include globalization, media impact, international communication, Middle East media, and new communication technologies. He has published eighteen books, including the acclaimed Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective (3rd edition), Global Discourse in Fractured Times, and Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age. He has served as an international consultant for several colleges and universities and on advisory/editorial boards of a dozen prominent communication journals. He is founding director of the Global Media Journals network and founding president of the Global Communication Association. Kamalipour has visited over sixty-five countries and has been interviewed by major newspapers and broadcast media around the world. He earned his PhD in communication at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Foreword: Cees Hamelink, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Introduction: Yahya R. Kamalipour, North Carolina A&T State University

1. America and the World: The Plight of Organized Human Life

Noam Chomsky, University of Arizona

2. How Americans See the World: What Research Tells Us

John V. Pavlik, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

3. Looking for Agrabah in the 21st Century: News, Entertainment, and the Politics of Austerity

Lee Artz, Purdue University Northwest

AUSTRALIA

4. What’s He Done Now? Seeing the US and Trump through the Australian Media

Hart Cohen, Myra Gurney, and Antonio Castillo, Western Sydney University

CHINA

5. Selfish and Reckless: Unveiling the Portrayal of US and Trump through the Chinese Media, 2017-2019

Lizhou Sun, Southwestern University of Political Science and Law, and Fei Song, Henan University of Technology, China

COLOMBIA

6. The Magnate Became President: How the Colombian Media and Citizens Perceive the US and Trump

Jesus Arroyave, Universidad del Norte, Colombia

EGYPT

7. Portrayal of the U.S. Administration in the Egyptian Media

Rasha Allam, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

ENGLAND

8. Special Relations: Trump, Brexit, and the British Media

Graham Murdock, Loughborough University, UK

9. Donald Trump: Balloon Baby or Toilet Head? Satire and Protest in the Press and on the Streets of London

Jane Stokes, University of East London

GERMANY

10. Mediated Populism: The US Image under Trump in German Media

Regina Cazzamatta and Kai Hafez, University of Erfurt, Germany

GREECE

11. The Image of the United States in Greek Online News Sites During the Trump Presidency

Thimios Zaharopoulos, The American College of Greece

IRAN

12. Iranian Media Coverage and Views of the United States and Trump

Saeedeh Moradifar and Ali Omidi, University of Isfahan, Iran, and Kourosh Ziabari, Fair Observer correspondent and UK Chevening Scholarship alumnus, Iran

KOREA

13. News Coverage about the US in Korea during Bush, Obama, and Trump Administration: Trump as an Outlier?

Hyelim Lee and Seulgi Jang, Seoul National University, Korea, and Kadir Jun Ayhan, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea

MALAYSIA

14. US Image and Trump Coverage in Major Malaysian Ethnic Newspapers

Abbas Ghaanbari Baghestan, University of Tehran and Mohd Nizam Osman, University Putra Malaysia

MEXICO

15. Images of Donald Trump and the United States on the Mexican Press

José Carlos Lozano, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and Francisco Javier Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico

NIGERIA

16. Nigerian Media Coverage of the United States

Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan, University of Tehran and Topic Peremobowei Akoje, University of Benin, Nigeria

PAKISTAN

17. Pakistani Perceptions of America and Trump

Ejaz Akram, Southwestern University of Politics and Law, Chongqing, China, and Ayesha Khan, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

POLAND

18. Social Perceptions and Media Coverage of the United States in Poland during Donald Trump’s Presidency

Tomasz Płudowski, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Poland

RUSSIA

19. The US Image and Donald Trump through the Russian Eyes

Rovinskaya Juliana, Russian State University for the Humanities, and Greydina Nadezhda, Pyatigorks State University, Russia

TURKEY

20. Long Time Allies No More? How News Media in Turkey Covered the USA in 2019

Banu Akdenizli, Northwestern University-Qatar; Burak Özçetin, Istanbul Bilgi University; and Nazlı Çetin Gündoğdu, Yeditepe University Istanbul

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