The political economy of global communication : an introduction / Peter Wilkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkin, Peter.

Series:

Human security in the global economy.

Human security in the global economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication--Mergers.

Telecommunication.

Mass media--Mergers.

Mass media.

Consolidation and merger of corporations.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Telecommunication--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

vi, 163 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To what extent will the merging of the world's media and telecommunications companies enhance or undermine the autonomy of ordinary citizens?.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Understanding Human Security

Human Security and International Relations

Defining Human Security

Security and the Study of International Relations

Global Communication and Human Security

Global Communication and World Order

Communication, Human Security and the Public Sphere

2. Towards a Global Communications Industry

Global Communication? A Historical Overview

States and Mass Communications

The Political Economy of Global Communication - Understanding the Transformation of Media Markets

Technology, Ideology and Social Power in the Political Economy of Communication

Neoliberal Political Economy

The Impact of Neoliberal Political Economy - Globalising Tendencies

A Qualitative Change in Global Communication?

Global Communications? The Changing Structure of the Communications Industries

Global Communication and the Changing Structure of Ownership and Control - From Synergy to Oligopoly

Globalisation and the Information Society: an introduction

Conclusions: Problems for Human Security

3. Human Security and Global Communication - Into the Twenty-First Century

Knowledge, Power and Rationality

Communication Needs and Human Security

Developments in the Political Economy of Education

Global Communication, Information and Human Security

Neoliberal Political Economy - Idealised Brutality

Conclusions: Obstacles to Human Security The Limits of the Neoliberal Analysis

4. Public Sphere, Private Power - The Limits to Autonomy and Human Security

Developments in the Public Sphere

A Neoliberal Utopia? - The Information Society Considered

Conclusions: The Good Society?

5. Building the Perfect Beast: The Information Society Revealed.

Democracy against Capitalism? The Neutered State

Human Security, Autonomy and the Information Society

Conclusions: Human Security and the Public Sphere in an Age of Information

6. Global Communication, Human Security and the Challenge to the Public Sphere

Globalisation and Human Security

Globalisation From Above ( GFA)

Globalisation From Below ( GFB)

The Global Public Sphere and Human Security

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Bibliography

Index

ABC,

49

88

abstraction 104

advertising

105

106-7

Agence-France Presse 50

Anderson, Benedict 28

anti-systemic movements

59

134

AOL-Time Warner

25

74

79

Argentina

101

Associated Press [USA] 79

AT and T 49

authoritarian governments

30

83

84

autonomy

2

6

22

43-4

55

80

96

113-14

114-19

122

125

Bagdikian, Ben

37

BBC

28

37-8

128

Bello, Walden 129

Berlusconi, Silvio

38

104

Bertelsmann 25

Bogart, Leo 71

Booth, Ken 7

Brazil

111

Bretton Woods

39

41

76

British Telecommunications [BT] 49

Business Week 110

capital accumulation

25-6

70

108-10

Capital Cities

58

capitalism

12-13

32

63

69

75-6

78-82

86

103-5

108

112

Carr, E.H.

45

127

China

choice

81-2

91

Chomsky, Noam

95

Chossudovsky, Michel 63

cinema 72-3

cities [global] 42

citizenship

75

83-4

93

129

132

civil society

3

47

48

Claritas Corporation

5

class conflict

29

Clinton, President

7

36

75.

Closed Circuit Television [CCTV]

97

CNN 107

commodities [commodification] 2

communication

global, 24

global, 24-7

global, 39

global, 62-3

global, 129-30

means of, 20

means of, 59

means of, 76

means of, 134

ownership and control, 20

ownership and control, 24-7

ownership and control, 47-8

ownership and control, 77

ownership and control, 120-122

ownership and control, 134

competition 39

complexity

8

Connolly, W 97

consumer sovereignty

40

core capitalist states

31-2

73

78

90

corporate mercantile capitalism

corporate mercantile capitalism, 125

corporate mercantile capitalism, 133

corporate propaganda 122

Cox, Robert 118

Critical Theory 84

crony capitalism 89

cultural imperialism

61

Dahl, Robert 21

Davies, Andrew 85

democracy/democratisation

17

81

92-3

110-11

deregulation

20

94

digitisation 34

discourse[s] 99

Disney

Doyal, Len, and Gough, Ian 55

e-commerce 89

e-firms [business] 89

Eastern Europe

44

67

109

Economist, The

110

Education/literacy

65-71

enabling state, the

enlightenment, the

19

54

European Union [EU]

77

113

evaluation 13-14

explanation

53

57

fallibility 54

fibre-optic 34

financial instability

89-90

Forbes magazine 74

Fortune

Foucault, Michel

Fourth Estate [media autonomy]

Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 2

Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 105

Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 120

France

free trade

106

Gates, Bill

34

39.

Gellner, Ernest 115

General Electric [GE]

geopolitics

29-30

global economic growth 33

global economy

global governance

global political economy

globalisation

21

51-2

125-35

globalisation from above [GFA]

85

126-31

globalisation from below [GFB]

131-34

Globo [Brazil]

107

good society, the

4

52

94-5

123

Gore, Al

G[7]

Habermas, Jürgen

23

61-2

Hamelink, Cees 27

Harvey, David 129

Hull/Humberside Telecom 85

human rights

human security

4-7

18

59-64

71-2

86-7

ideology

42-3

47-8

101-2

119-23

Ignatieff, Michael 22

indeterminacy 57-8

India

inequality

21-2

41-2

99

information society

86-95

96-124

interests 77

International Financial Institutions [IFIs]

42

international financial transac-tions

89

International Labour Organisation [ILO] 62

international law 69

International Monetary Fund [IMF] 39

internet

33

interpretation [meaning]

Jackall, Robin 107

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall 121-2

Japan

Kavanagh, Trevor 104

Keynes [-ianism] 110

knowledge

53-4

Koss, Stephen 50

Labour Party [New Labour/UK]

100

Lafontaine, Oskar 110

Lazonick, William 72

liberalisation

39-40

liberalism

1

Linklater, Andrew 23

Lippmann, Walter

50

Malone, John 35

Mann, Michael

14-15

markets.

50

71-3

116

Marx, Karl 83

Melody, William

Microsoft

35

military power/research and design

36-7

Mills, C. Wright 18

monopoly

morality

Mosco, Vincent 72

Mowlana, Hamid 106

Multilateral Agreement on Investment [MAI] 6

Murdoch, Rupert

NAFTA

98

national identity 19

national interest

NATO 6

NBC 49

needs

neo realism

11

14

neoliberalism

39-46

71-82

126-9

new economy, the 79

New Information Technology [NIT]

64

68

112-13

New World Information and Communication Order [NWICO] 79

news agencies 79

News Corporation

24

79-80

104-5

Newsquest [USA] 107

normative principles

114-23

Nozick, Robert 81

O'Neill, John 107

objectivity 114-15

OECD 67

oligopoly

orthodox security 7-8

perfect information 39

periphery states

Peru 32

Polanyi, Karl 72

political culture

82

political economy

political identity

97-8

political obligation

Polygram 25

Popper, Karl 116

postmodernism 54

poverty [global]

60

62-4

power 14-15

private power

46-7

120-1

133

privatisation

profit motive 77

progress

propaganda

protectionism 75

public service broadcasting [PSB]

26-9

public sphere[s] [local, national, regional, global]

83-6

96-123

rational choices

114-23.

rationality 60-1.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640350

1849640351

OCLC:

654853199