Media Freedom and Pluralism

Media Freedom and Pluralism

Author: Beata Klimkiewicz

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2010-05-10

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 615521185X

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Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.


Media Ownership

Media Ownership

Author: Gillian Doyle

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002-07-09

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780761966814

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Looks at media ownership policies in Great Britain and Europe.


Media Ownership and Concentration in America

Media Ownership and Concentration in America

Author: Eli Noam

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10-19

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0195188527

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People have worried for many years about the concentration of private power over the media, as evidenced by controversy over Federal Communication Commission rulings on broadcast ownership limits. The fear, it seems, is of a media mogul with a political agenda: a new William Randolph Hearst who could help start wars or run for political office using the power of the media. In the light of these concerns about freedom of speech, Eli Noam provides a comprehensive survey of media concentration in America, covering everything from the early media empire of Benjamin Franklin to the modern-day cellular phone industry.


Press Concentration and Monopoly

Press Concentration and Monopoly

Author: Robert G. Picard

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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This book is the first to address the problem of economic concentration and monolopoly in the newspaper industry. Some of the chapters are written from an economic standpoint and deal with the factors that bring about this occurence with the resulting effect that economic conditions have on newspapers' content. The volume also deals with public policy issues involving antitrust, joint operating agreements and other actions. This study provides pragmatic, reliable, independent information about the results of concentration and monopoly and considers their impact on concrete issues such as news diversity, employee relations, advertising rates, and concern for public service, among others.


Media Concentration

Media Concentration

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Minority Enterprise

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 764

ISBN-13:

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Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications

Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications

Author: Donald H. Johnston

Publisher: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13: 9780123876744

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Explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world. Provides perspective and context about content, delivery systems, and their myriad relationships, as well as clearly drawn avenues for further research.


Handbook of Media and Communication Economics

Handbook of Media and Communication Economics

Author: Jan Krone

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-12-22

Total Pages: 1497

ISBN-13: 3658399090

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This handbook maps the media economy in its entirety against the background of the advancing digitalization of communication, media production, media distribution and the adaptation of regulatory framework conditions from different disciplinary approaches. It provides an integrated view on digitally induced economic transformations of the European media sector, and gives an explicitly European perspective on media economics – challenging the dominant US-American view. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: Theoretical approaches to media economics; media technologies and data management in media economics; building blocks of the media industry; media types and core distribution markets; system aspects and communication culture; media systems and regulatory policy; as well as methods of media economics. The handbook is a must-read for students, teachers and researchers in media and communication economics and science,as well as practicioners and policy-makers at the nexus of media, business and politics.


Media Concentration and Democracy

Media Concentration and Democracy

Author: C. Edwin Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-12-11

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1139461036

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Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the 'bottom line'. The middle chapters answer those agents, including the Federal Communication Commission, who favor 'deregulation' and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers.


Economic Inequality and News Media

Economic Inequality and News Media

Author: Andrea Grisold

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0190053917

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Economic inequalities have become increasingly prominent in public debate in the last decade as sluggish economic growth, declining or stagnant incomes, high unemployment, and state policy regimes orientated towards austerity dominate many core capitalist regions, often with extreme turbulence in the political arena. Debate over these issues unfolds in both the public sphere and within the academy, with the conversation developing from two disciplinary areas in particular: economics and political economy, and journalism and communication studies. Economic Inequality and News Media brings these fields together. In this interdisciplinary volume, Andrea Grisold and Paschal Preston build on a unique multi-country research project exploring how news media cover and frame issues of economic inequality. Taking media coverage of Thomas Piketty's best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century as a case study, this book addresses important blind-spots in the relationship between mainstream media and economics. It interrogates both the failure of economists' to engage with the evolving role of the media as well as journalists' tendency to overlook key aspects of economic processes and power that are politically relevant and of public interest. Grisold and Preston tackle this disconnect and argue for a multi-disciplinary approach in which they acknowledge the crucial role the mass media plays in creating and disseminating economic information. The book explores important questions such as: How do new forms of economic inequality, power, and privilege relate to prevailing theories and conceptualizations of the media? What roles do new trends and forms of economic inequality play in the typical narratives of mediated communication? How do we construct the story of inequality? This eye-opening and transdisciplinary book sheds new light not only on the relation between news media and economic inequality, but also on economic issues more broadly. In an evolving world experiencing the rise of ultra-nationalism, populism, and rampant economic uncertainty, Economic Inequality and News Media is a crucial investigation of the nuances of economic news media.