Media Ownership And Agenda Control

Author : Justin Schlosberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317659624

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Media Ownership and Agenda Control by Justin Schlosberg Pdf

Media Ownership and Agenda Control offers a detailed examination of media ownership amidst the complexities of the information age, from the resurgence of press barons to the new influence wielded by internet giants. Much of the discussion pivots around recent revelations and controversies in the media industry, such as the findings published in 2012 from the Leveson Inquiry, the US Federal Communications Commission’s ruling on net neutrality in 2015, Edward Snowden’s decision to leak National Security Agency (NSA) documents in 2013 and the legal battles over ancillary copyrights waged in Germany and elsewhere. Justin Schlosberg traces the obscure and often unnoticed ways in which agendas continue to be shaped by a small number of individual and institutional megaphones, despite the rise of grassroots and participatory platforms, and despite ubiquitous displays of adversarial journalism. Above all, it explores the web of connections and interdependence that binds old and new media gatekeepers, and cements them to the surveillance and warfare state. This ultimately foregrounds the book’s call for a radical rethink of ownership regulation, situating the movement for progressive media reform alongside wider struggles against the iniquities and injustices of global capitalism. This book’s re-evaluation of the nature of media ownership and control in a postdigital world will prove to be an invaluable resource for students of media studies and journalism, as well as all those with an interest in the changing dynamics of media power. Get involved: Reclaimthemedia.org

Author : Ronald E. Rice
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mass media
ISBN : UOM:39015074260186

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Media Ownership by Ronald E. Rice Pdf

Trends and developments in social values, political ideologies, media policies, economic conditions, globalization, media technologies, and telecommunications networks have all interacted to generate significant changes in the nature of media industries, production, content, distribution, exhibition, and use. This book considers a wide variety of interdisciplinary discussion and analysis of historical, legal, cultural, policy, research, professional, oppositional and ethical perspectives on the media ownership question.

Author : Pradip Thomas,Zaharom Nain
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018081775

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Who Owns the Media by Pradip Thomas,Zaharom Nain Pdf

The ownership of the media and issues related to the governance of global media institutions are of immense public significance. Not only are the cultural industries a major source of contemporary power - economic, political, social - they are also the primary definers of consciousness in most parts of the contemporary world. In the shadow of the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission, USA, to dismantle restrictions on cross media ownership and similar initiatives in the UK and in other parts of the world, the issue of media ownership has been thrust on the world stage. Fewer owners and greater concentration of media often result in the downgrading of plurality, diversity and access to a variety of opinion, and contribute to the hamstringing of democratic discourse. The pro-war stance on Iraq, actively supported by mainstream media in the USA, is merely the latest example of the agenda-setting role of global media. Media ownership patterns and permutations today are a direct consequence of the globalisation of neo-liberal economics. While there are some regional variations in the ownership 'mix', the trend from South Africa, to Argentina, India to East and Central Europe, clearly illustrated in the selection of writings in this volume, is towards privatisation, de-regulation, retreat from the state's public media responsibilities and the contraction of space for non-commercial, community-based media efforts. This collection of critical writings on media ownership from different parts of the world written by leading scholars including Robert McChesney, Dan Schiller, Cees Hamelink, Sean O'Siochru, Zhao Yuezhi and others, offers a richly textured, contextual reading of the political economy of contemporary media ownership. Issues addressed include convergence, global media governance, IP, telecommunications regulation and deregulation, censorship, the role of the state, with a strong accent on the need for transparency, accountability and media diversity. This book is an invaluable resource for media scholars, students and policy makers.

Author : Eli Noam
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195188523

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Media Ownership and Concentration in America by Eli Noam Pdf

After examining 100 separate media and network industries in detail, Noam provides a powerful summary and analysis of concentration trends across industries and major media sectors. He also looks at local media power, vertical concentration, and the changing nature of media ownership through financial institutions and private equity.

Author : S. Barnett,J. Townend
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137522849

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Media Power and Plurality by S. Barnett,J. Townend Pdf

While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.

Author : Gillian Doyle
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761966811

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Media Ownership by Gillian Doyle Pdf

Looks at media ownership policies in Great Britain and Europe.

Author : Peggy Valcke,Miklos Sukosd,Robert Picard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137304308

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Media Pluralism and Diversity by Peggy Valcke,Miklos Sukosd,Robert Picard Pdf

Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media pluralism.

Author : Beata Klimkiewicz
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786155211850

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Media Freedom and Pluralism by Beata Klimkiewicz Pdf

Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.

Author : Brankica Petković
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 9616455265

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Media Ownership and Its Impact on Media Independence and Pluralism by Brankica Petković Pdf

Author : Anya Schiffrin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231548021

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Media Capture by Anya Schiffrin Pdf

Who controls the media today? There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. As demagogues rise, independent voices have been squeezed out. Corporate-owned media companies that act in the service of power increasingly exercise soft censorship. Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have dramatically changed how people access information, with consequences that are only beginning to be felt. This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture—how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel Simon, and Nikki Usher analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide—from the United Kingdom to Turkey to India and beyond—many drawn from firsthand experience. They examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and falling revenues for legacy media has led to new forms of control. Contributions also shed light on how the rise of right-wing populists has catalyzed the crisis of global media. They also chart a way forward, exploring the growing need for a policy response and sustainable models for public-interest investigative journalism. Providing valuable insight into today’s urgent threats to media independence, Media Capture is essential reading for anyone concerned with defending press freedom in the digital age.

Author : Edward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307801623

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Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman,Noam Chomsky Pdf

An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

Author : Eli M. Noam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1435 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199987238

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Who Owns the World's Media? by Eli M. Noam Pdf

This publication moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, it covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, and wireless telecommunication, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.

Author : Maxwell McCombs
Publisher : Polity
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745623122

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Setting the Agenda by Maxwell McCombs Pdf

Setting the Agenda describes the mass media’s significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Although Walter Lippman captured the essence of the media’s powerful influence early in the last century with his phrase, “the world outside and the pictures in our heads,” a detailed, empirical elaboration of this agenda-setting role of the mass media did not begin until the final quarter of the 20th century. In this comprehensive book, Maxwell McCombs, one of the founding fathers of agenda-setting tradition of research, synthesizes the hundreds of scientific studies carried out on this central role of the mass media in the shaping of public opinion. Across the world, the mass media strongly influences what the pictures of public affairs "in our heads" are about. The mass media also influences the very details of those pictures. In addition to describing this media influence on what we think about and how we think about it, Setting the Agenda also discusses the sources of these media agendas, the psychological explanation for their impact on the public agenda, and the subsequent consequences for attitudes, opinions and behaviour. This important and perspicacious new book will prove invaluable to students of media communications and politics, as well as those interested in the role of mass media in shaping and directing public opinion.

Author : C. Edwin Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139461030

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Media Concentration and Democracy by C. Edwin Baker Pdf

Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the 'bottom line'. The middle chapters answer those agents, including the Federal Communication Commission, who favor 'deregulation' and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers.

Author : Stuart Neil Soroka
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0774809590

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Agenda-setting Dynamics in Canada by Stuart Neil Soroka Pdf

Why do public issues like the environment rise and fall in importance over time? To what extent can the trends in salience be explained by real-world factors? To what degree are they the product of interactions between media content, public opinion, and policymaking? This book surveys the development of eight issues in Canada over a decade -- AIDS, crime, the debt/deficit, the environment, inflation, national unity, taxes, and unemployment -- to explore how the salience of issues changes over time, and to examine why these changes are important to our understanding of everyday politics. Agenda-Setting Dynamics in Canada offers one of the first empirical analyses of the interaction of the media, the public, and policymakers in Canada and, more generally, makes an important contribution to the study of political communications and policymaking well beyond the Canadian context.