Media Ownership and Agenda Control: The hidden limits of the information age / Edition 1

Media Ownership and Agenda Control: The hidden limits of the information age / Edition 1

by Justin Schlosberg
ISBN-10:
1138775452
ISBN-13:
9781138775459
Pub. Date:
11/29/2016
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
1138775452
ISBN-13:
9781138775459
Pub. Date:
11/29/2016
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Media Ownership and Agenda Control: The hidden limits of the information age / Edition 1

Media Ownership and Agenda Control: The hidden limits of the information age / Edition 1

by Justin Schlosberg
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Overview

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.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138775459
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/29/2016
Series: Communication and Society
Pages: 190
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Justin Schlosberg is a media lecturer, researcher and activist based at Birkbeck College, University of London, and current Chair of the Media Reform Coalition.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Part One: Heard and not Seen

  1. Introduction
  2. Behind Closed Doors
  3. The Art of the Impossible
  4. Part Two: Dispersal

  5. Dismantling the Gates
  6. Proliferation
  7. Endurance and Resurgence
  8. Two-sided Preferences
  9. Part Three: Transferral

  10. Directing the Flow
  11. Getting to Know You
  12. The Tyranny of Automation
  13. Manual Control
  14. Part Four: Co-existence

  15. The Long and the Short of it
  16. Big Headedness
  17. The Media-Technology-Military-Industrial Complex
  18. Part Five: Demanding the Impossible

  19. Sources of Control

XVI. The Politics of Measurement

XVII. Safeguards and Remedies

XVIII. Conclusion

Index

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