The Contradictions of Media Power (Paperback)

Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER 1: APPROACHES TO MEDIA POWER ELEMENTS OF THE PUZZLE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF MEDIA POWER FOUR PARADIGMS OF MEDIA POWER CONCLUSION CHAPTER 2: ELITES, OWNERSHIP AND MEDIA POWER POWER ELITE THEORY AND THE MEDIA MEDIA POWER ELITES AND NEOLIBERALISM OWNERSHIP AND MEDIA POWER CONCLUSION CHAPTER 3: MEDIA POLICY AND POWER POLICY ACTIVISM IN NEOLIBERAL TIMES POWER, DECISION-MAKING AND THE POLICY PROCESS MEDIA POLICY SILENCES Silences in Pluralism Policy Debates Silences in Net Neutrality Debates CONCLUSION CHAPTER 4: POWER SHIFTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA A RADICAL REDISTRIBUTION OF POWER? DECENTRALIZATION: THE RISE OF THE 'POWER MOSAIC' DISINTERMEDIATION: POWER TO THE PEOPLE? 'IT'S CALLED CAPITALISM' - ERIC SCHMIDT, CHAIRMAN OF GOOGLE CHAPTER 5: CHALLENGING MEDIA POWER MEDIA, CONTRADICTION AND RESISTANCE THE DOMINANCE/RESISTANCE MODEL IN ACTION: THE WAR IN IRAQ THE POLITICS OF MEDIA REFORM CONCLUSION CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION - MEDIA POWER PARADIGMS REVISITED BOOK REFERENCES