Media ownership and agenda control : the hidden limits of the information age / Justin R. Schlosberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlosberg, Justin, author.

Series:

Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))

Communication and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Economic aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Ownership.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 179 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Heard and Not Seen 1

1 Introduction 3

2 Behind Closed Doors 10

3 The Art of the Impossible 19

Part II Dispersal 33

4 Dismantling the Gates 35

5 Proliferation 42

6 Endurance and Resurgence 47

7 Two-Sided Preferences 52

Part III Transferral 57

8 Directing the Flow 59

9 Getting to Know You 68

10 The Tyranny of Automation 74

11 Manual Control 80

Part IV Coexistence 87

12 The Long and the Short of It 89

13 Big-Headedness 98

14 The Media-Technology-Military-Industrial Complex 116

Part V Demanding the Impossible 129

15 Sources of Control 131

16 The Politics of Measurement 137

17 Safeguards and Remedies 143

18 Conclusion 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138775459

1138775452

9781138775466

1138775460

OCLC:

954038021