Who Owns the World's Media?: Media Concentration and Ownership around the World

by Eli M. Noam, The International Media Concentration Collaboration

Overview

Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been accused of taking cash for positive coverage of politicians in Mexico. Even in tiny Iceland, the regulation of media concentration led to that country's first and only public referendum.

Who Owns the World's Media? 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, the book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a ten to twenty-five year period in thirty countries. In many countries—like Egypt, China, or Russia—little to no data exists and the publication of these chapters will become authoritative resources on the subject in those regions.

After examining each country, Noam and his collaborators offer comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, and development levels. They also calculate overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media.

This definitive global study of the extent and impact of media concentration will be an invaluable resource for communications, public policy, law, and business scholars in doing research and also for media, telecom, and IT companies and financial institutions in the private sector.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199987238
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/06/2016
Pages:	1440
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 2.40(d)

About the Author

Eli M. Noam is the Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility as well as a Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School, and serves as Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. He also served for three years a Commissioner of Public Services for New York State and on the White House's President's IT Advisory Council. He has written over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications journals and is the author of Media Ownership and Concentration in America.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
PART II: Media Concentration Around the World — Country Studies
A. Europe
3. Belgium - Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner
4. Finland - Mikko Gronlund
5. France - Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean- Baptiste Lesourd
6. Germany - Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf
7. Ireland - Roddy Flynn and Paschal Preston
8. Italy -Giuseppe Richeri and Benedetta Prario
9. The Netherlands - Joost van Dreunen
10. Portugal - Paulo Faustino
11. Russia -Elena Vartanova
12. Spain - Juan P. Artero and Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero
13. Sweden - Robert G. Picard, Mart Ots, and Madison Forsander
14. Switzerland - Patrick Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois
15. Turkey - Huseyin Kemal Bayazit
16. United Kingdom - Petros Iosifidis
B. North America
17. Canada - Dwayne Winseck
18. United States - Eli Noam
C. Latin America
19. Argentina - Guillermo Mastrini, Ana Bizberge, and Martin Becerra
20. Brazil - Sonia Virginia Moreira
21. Chile - Sergio Godoy E.
22. Mexico - Juan Enrique Huerta Wong and Rodrigo Gomez Garcia
D. Asia-Pacific
23. Australia - Franco Papandrea and Rodney Tiffen
24. China - Min Hang
25. India - Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Liwei Wang, Tapasya Banerjee, and Anushi Agrawal
26. Japan - Kiyoshi Nakmaura, Teruaki Asari, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Koichiro Hayashi, Hajime Yamada, and Sho Yamaguchi
27. South Korea - Daeho Kim and Seongcheol Kim
28. Taiwan - Yu-li Liu, Yantsai Chou, Kuo-feng Tseng, Ru-Shou Robert Chen, Yi-hsuan Chiang, Ping-Hung Chen, and Chun-Fa Chuang
E. Middle East and Africa
29. Egypt - Nagla Rizk
30. Israel - Amit M. Schejter and Moran Yemini
31. South Africa - George Angelopulo and Petrus H. Potgieter
PART III - Summaries and Analyses
32. National Media Concentrations Compared
33. European Trends (Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd)
34. Industry Analysis
35. Company Analysis
36. Ownership Analysis
37. Analysis of Media Concentration
38. Findings
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"An interesting book published by Oxford Press... Highly suggested." — Anna Maria Polidori, Alfemminile

"A massive book for a massive undertaking... an essential contribution to the debate about dangers posed to democracy and global cultural heritage when media ownership is condensed into the hands of a few individuals."

— CHOICE

"This is a massive book for a massive undertaking. Over a 25-year period, Noam (Columbia Business School) and global scholars compiled data on media ownership and concentration, as well as cross-media and its cross-national ownership. This is an essential contribution to the debate about dangers posed to democracy and global cultural heritage when media ownership is condensed into the hands of a few individuals."-S. Clerc, Southern Connecticut State University

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