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Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistances

Penang: Southbound (2004), 330 pp.

Contains index

Signature commbox: 10-Economics-E 2004

I. THEORY AND POLICIES
The Political Economy of International Communications / Robert McChesney
Global Institutions and the Democratisation of the Media / Sean Ó Siochrú
Intellectual Property Rights / Cees J. Hamelink
II. REGIONAL AND COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
Privatisation: The Cost of Media Democratisation in East and Central Europe? / Slavko Splichal
The Politics of the Media in the English Speaking Caribbean / Hopeton S Dunn
The Political Economy of Media in Southern Africa, 1990-2001 / William Hueva, Keyan Tomaselli and Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
Media Ownership and Control in Africa in the Age of Globalisation / Francis Nyamnjoh
Media and Neoliberalism in Latin America / Ana Fiol
Communications and the Crisis: From Neo-Liberalism to Authoritarian Development? / Dan Schiller
The State, the Market, and Media Control in China / Zhao Yuezhi
Media Ownership and Communication Rights in India / Pradip N. Thomas
The Political Economy of Media Ownership in Nigeria / Mohammed Musa and Jibril Mohammed
Ownership, Control and the Malaysian Media / Zaharom Nain and Wang Lay Kim
III. DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATION FUTURES
The Whole World Is Watching: Online Surveillance of Social Movement Organisations / Sasha Constanza-Chock
Agendas for Research and Strategies for Intervention / Pradip N. Thomas