Global Media: The New Missionaries of Global Capitalism

by Edward Hermann and Robert McChesney

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The Global Media describes in detail the recent rapid growth and crossborder activities and linkages of an industry largely composed of international conglomerates. It assesses the significance of the ongoing deregulation and convergence of global media and telecommunications systems and the rise of the internet.  The authors argue that the most important features of this globalization process are the implantation, consolidation and concentration of advertisement-based commercial media and the parallel weakening of the ‘public sphere'.  It is contended that the United States provides the evolutionary model toward which the global media system is moving, and the history and characteristics...Read more
  • ISBN10 082645819X
  • ISBN13 9780826458193
  • Publish Date 1 June 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English