Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism

Name: Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Edward S. Herman
ISBN: 9780304334346

Edward S. Herman

26/06/1997
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

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Résumé

This text describes in detail the recent rapid growth and crossborder activities and linkages of an industry of large global media conglomerates. It also assesses the significance of the ongoing deregulation and convergence of the global media and telecommunications systems and the rise of the Internet. The authors argue that the most important features of this globalization process are the implantation, consolidation and concentration of an advertisement-based commercial media and parallel weakening of public broadcasting systems worldwide, with negative consequences on the "public sphere".