Media Ownership and Agenda Control
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-77545-9 (ISBN)
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
Justin Schlosberg is a media lecturer, researcher and activist based at Birkbeck College, University of London, and current Chair of the Media Reform Coalition.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Part One: Heard and not Seen
Introduction
Behind Closed Doors
The Art of the Impossible
Part Two: Dispersal
Dismantling the Gates
Proliferation
Endurance and Resurgence
Two-sided Preferences
Part Three: Transferral
Directing the Flow
Getting to Know You
The Tyranny of Automation
Manual Control
Part Four: Co-existence
The Long and the Short of it
Big Headedness
The Media-Technology-Military-Industrial Complex
Part Five: Demanding the Impossible
Sources of Control
XVI. The Politics of Measurement
XVII. Safeguards and Remedies
XVIII. Conclusion
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.11.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Communication and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 510 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-77545-2 / 1138775452 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-77545-9 / 9781138775459 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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