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Who owns the world's media? : media concentration and ownership around the world

By: Noam, Eli M
Title By: The International Media Concentration Collaboration
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, c2016.Description: xix, 1412 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780199987238Subject(s): Mass media -- Ownership | Mass media -- Economic aspects | Telecommunication -- Ownership | Telecommunication -- Economic aspectsDDC classification: 338.4/730223 Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been accused of taking cash for positive coverage of politicians in Mexico. Even in tiny Iceland, the regulation of media concentration led to that country's first and only public referendum. Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a ten to twenty-five year period in thirty countries. In many countries-like Egypt, China, or Russia-little to no data exists and the publication of these chapters will become authoritative resources on the subject in those regions. After examining each country, Noam and his collaborators offer comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, and development levels. They also calculate overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media. This definitive global study of the extent and impact of media concentration will be an invaluable resource for communications, public policy, law, and business scholars in doing research and also for media, telecom, and IT companies and financial institutions in the private sector.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 1349-1371) and index.

Introduction -- Methodology -- Media concentration around the world -- Country studies A. Europe. Belgium / Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner -- Finland / Mikko Gronlund -- France / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd -- Germany / Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf -- Ireland / Roddy Flynn and Paschal Preston -- Italy / Giuseppe Richeri and Benedetta Prario -- The Netherlands / Joost Van Dreunen -- Portugal / Paulo Faustino -- Russia / Elena Vartanova -- Spain / Juan P. Artero and Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero -- Sweden / Robert G. Picard, Mart Ots, and Madison Forsander -- Switzerland / Patrick-Yves Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois -- Turkey / Huseyin Kemal Bayazit -- United Kingdom / Petros Iosifidis -- B. North America. Canada / Dwayne Winseck -- United states / Eli Noam -- Latin America. Argentina / Guillermo Mastrini, Ana Bizberge, and Martin Becerra -- Brazil / Sonia Virginia Moreira -- Chile / Sergio Godoy E. -- Mexico / Juan Enrique Huerta Wong and Rodrigo Gomez Garcia -- Asia-Pacific. Australia / Franco Papandrea and Rodney Tiffen -- China / Min Hang -- India / Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Liwei Wang, and Tapasya Banerjee -- Japan / Kiyoshi Nakmaura, Teruaki Asari, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Koichiro Hayashi, Hajime Yamada, and Sho Yamaguchi -- South Korea / Daeho Kim and Seongcheol Kim -- Taiwan / Yu-li Liu, Yuntsai Chou, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Ru-shou Robert Chen, Yi-hsuan Chiang, and Ping-hung Chen -- E. Middle East and Africa. Egypt / Nagla Rizk -- Israel / Amit M. Schejter and Moran Yemini -- South Africa / George Angelopulo and Petrus H. Potgieter -- Summaries and analyses / National media concentrations compared -- European trends / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd -- Media Industry in International comparison -- The World's major media companies -- The Owners of the World's media -- Analysis of media concentration -- Findings.

Media ownership and concentration has major implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It is also a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's companies have dominated Italian politics. Televisa has been accused of taking cash for positive coverage of politicians in Mexico. Even in tiny Iceland, the regulation of media concentration led to that country's first and only public referendum. Who Owns the World's Media? moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a ten to twenty-five year period in thirty countries. In many countries-like Egypt, China, or Russia-little to no data exists and the publication of these chapters will become authoritative resources on the subject in those regions. After examining each country, Noam and his collaborators offer comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, and development levels. They also calculate overall national concentration trends beyond specific media industries, the market share of individual companies in the overall national media sector, and the size and trends of transnational companies in overall global media. This definitive global study of the extent and impact of media concentration will be an invaluable resource for communications, public policy, law, and business scholars in doing research and also for media, telecom, and IT companies and financial institutions in the private sector.

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