BRICS and Media

Media Systems in Flux: The Challenge of the BRICS Countries

Project hosted at the University of Tamperehttp://uta.fi/cmt/tutkimus/BRICS.html

Funded by the Academy of FinlandCoordinated by Professor emer. Kaarle Nordenstreng

kaarle.nordenstreng@uta.fi

BRICS and Beyond

School of Communication 3

Percentages of World GDP for Selected Countries

1980 2010Brazil

Russia

India

China

South Africa

Japan

United States

Rest of world

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database

School of Communication 4

2017 Projected GDPs in US$bn at PPPs

Brazil Russia India China South Africa

USA Finland0

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

3171 3295

7574

20336

752

19704

239

Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database

Top ten Internet users, in millions

Presentations

Jukka Pietiläinen (Tampere, Finland)Raquel Paiva & Leonardo Custodio (Rio, Brazil)Dmitry Strovsky (Yekaterinburg, Russia)B.P. Sanjay (Tamil Nadu, India)Yuezhi Zhao (Beijing, China & Vancouver, Canada)Herman Wasserman (Grahamstown, South Africa)