Media Pasts and Futures : Critical Reflections on 'Power Without Responsibility'.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedman, Des, author.

Contributor:

Klontzas, Michael.

Series:

Critical, Digital and Social Media Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--History.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Westminster Press, 2025.

Summary:

This collection of short essays from leading media scholars reflects on critical issues of media history, power, ownership, influence and impact.The book uses the acclaimed media title Power Without Responsibility (PWR) as a calling card, a cue to reflect on the limitations of the media in different countries and to advocate solutions aimed at.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Editor: Christian Fuchs

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

1. Introduction

Part I Comparative International and Critical Overviews

2. Power Without Responsibility: A Celebration

3. Using Media History to Inform Media Policy

4. Power Without Responsibility: The UK Legacy

5. Irresponsible or Irrelevant? Japan’s Two-tiered Journalism System

6. Reading Power Without Responsibility From the ‘Periphery’

7. Big Tech’s Influx into Africa: A Case of Power Without Responsibility

8. Power, Money and Arab Media: A Not-so-simple Saga

9. Beyond Whig Interpretation: Trends in Brazilian Media Histories

10. Stamped and Unstamped Media in Contemporary Brazil

Part II Market Impoverishment

11. Maintaining a Critical Tradition of Situating Media Within Wider Power Relations

12. Market Impoverishment, Democratic Choices

13. Power Without Responsibility: Legacy and Lessons

14. Australia’s Media Market Failure

Part III Media Reform: Democratic Choices

15. Why Has Media Reform Failed?

16. A Manifesto for a People’s Media: A Response to Power Without Responsibility

17. Against Market Censorship: A Call for Democratising Journalism

18. Paradise Lost: Why We Need a Public Service Internet and How it Could Save Our Democracy

Part IV Public Interest: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis

19. Speaking Responsibility to Power: Public Communication in Critical Times

20. ‘SMET’ and the BBC Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-915445-66-3

OCLC:

1484698579