To internationalize global communication

Abstract

In late, 2023 the authors of “Global Communication as Standpoint” reached out for responses to their important article. This particular response engages in reconsidering the terms of the “global” in global communication. The authors of “Global Communication as Standpoint” have convincingly called for a stronger attention to the theorization of the global in communication and media studies. To add to this call, the authors here seek to link the concept of the global in communication and media studies to the long idea of Marxist internationalism. Building on the work of CLR James, this paper argues that the historical gap between theorizations of the global and theorizations of the international in communication and media studies are linked to epistemological questions that “Global Communication as Standpoint” opens us up to.