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Diverting from the traditional dichotomy of national versus transnational media, from a focus on the nation state towards actoral connectivity across societies and from a methodological research dichotomy of ‘linear’ vs networked media (e.g. Cottle in Environmental conflict and the media. Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 13–28, 2013), this study concentrates on a less investigated South Asian country, Pakistan. Pakistan—even though being a low-income country and being continuously challenged by all kind of crises—cannot ‘only’ be reduced to these economical or conflict strata but we need to begin to assess developing regions in a new perspective.
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Volkmer, I., Sharif, K. (2018). Pakistan, a Glocalized Context for Global Media Climate Change Research. In: Risk Journalism between Transnational Politics and Climate Change. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73308-1_4
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