Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 1349-1371, index
ISBN 978-0-19-998723-8 (hbk); 978-0-19-021018-2 (online)
Signature commbox: 10-Economics-E 2016
"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulation, and innovation. It addresses a highly contentious subject of public debate in many countries around the world. In this discussion, one side fears the emergence of media empires that can sway public opinion and endanger democracy. The other side believes the Internet has opened media to unprecedented diversity and worries about excessive regulation by government. Strong opinions and policy advocates abound on each side, yet a lack of quantitative research across time, media industries, and countries undermines these positions. This book 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. The book covers thirteen media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication, and others across a 10- to 25-year period in thirty countries. After examining these countries, this book offers comparisons and analysis across industries, regions, companies, and development levels. It calculates 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." (Publisher description)
I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Introduction, 3
Project Organization and Methodology, 16
II. MEDIA CONCENTRATION AROUND THE WORLD. COUNTRY STUDIES
A. EUROPE
Belgium / Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner, 35
Finland / Mikko Gronlund, 61
France / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, 80
Germany / Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf, 107
Ireland / Roddy Flynn and Paschal Preston, 143
Italy / Giuseppe Richeri and Benedetta Prario, 183
The Netherlands / Joost Van Dreunen, 206
Portugal / Paulo Faustino, 231
Russia / Elena Vartanova, 276
Spain / Juan P. Artero and Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero, 311
Sweden / Robert G. Picard, Mart Ots, and Madison Forsander, 338
Switzerland / Patrick-Yves Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois, 358
Turkey / Huseyin Kemal Bayazit, 387
United Kingdom / Petros Iosifidis, 425
B. NORTH AMERICA
Canada / Dwayne Winseck, 455
United States / Eli Noam, 500
C. LATIN AMERICA
Argentina / Guillermo Mastrini, Ana Bizberge, and Martin Becerra, 575
Brazil / Sonia Virginia Moreira, 606
Chile / Sergio Godoy E., 641
Mexico / Juan Enrique Huerta Wong and Rodrigo Gomez Garcia, 674
D. ASIA-PACIFIC
Australia / Franco Papandrea and Rodney Tiffen, 703
China / Min Hang, 740
India / Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Liwei Wang, and Tapasya Banerjee, 772
Japan / Kiyoshi Nakmaura, Teruaki Asari, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Koichiro Hayashi, Hajime Yamada, and Sho Yamaguchi, 801
South Korea / Daeho Kim and Seongcheol Kim, 827
Taiwan / Yu-li Liu, Yuntsai Chou, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Ru-shou Robert Chen, Yi-hsuan Chiang, and Ping-hung Chen, 847
E. MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Egypt / Nagla Rizk, 883
Israel / Amit M. Schejter and Moran Yemini, 942
South Africa / George Angelopulo and Petrus H. Potgieter, 986
III. SUMMARIES AND ANALYSES
National media concentrations compared, 1017
European trends / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, 1042
Media Industry in International comparison, 1054
The World's major media companies, 1109
The Owners of the World's media, 1180
Analysis of media concentration, 1243
Findings, 1303
Introduction, 3
Project Organization and Methodology, 16
II. MEDIA CONCENTRATION AROUND THE WORLD. COUNTRY STUDIES
A. EUROPE
Belgium / Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner, 35
Finland / Mikko Gronlund, 61
France / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, 80
Germany / Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf, 107
Ireland / Roddy Flynn and Paschal Preston, 143
Italy / Giuseppe Richeri and Benedetta Prario, 183
The Netherlands / Joost Van Dreunen, 206
Portugal / Paulo Faustino, 231
Russia / Elena Vartanova, 276
Spain / Juan P. Artero and Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero, 311
Sweden / Robert G. Picard, Mart Ots, and Madison Forsander, 338
Switzerland / Patrick-Yves Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois, 358
Turkey / Huseyin Kemal Bayazit, 387
United Kingdom / Petros Iosifidis, 425
B. NORTH AMERICA
Canada / Dwayne Winseck, 455
United States / Eli Noam, 500
C. LATIN AMERICA
Argentina / Guillermo Mastrini, Ana Bizberge, and Martin Becerra, 575
Brazil / Sonia Virginia Moreira, 606
Chile / Sergio Godoy E., 641
Mexico / Juan Enrique Huerta Wong and Rodrigo Gomez Garcia, 674
D. ASIA-PACIFIC
Australia / Franco Papandrea and Rodney Tiffen, 703
China / Min Hang, 740
India / Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Liwei Wang, and Tapasya Banerjee, 772
Japan / Kiyoshi Nakmaura, Teruaki Asari, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Koichiro Hayashi, Hajime Yamada, and Sho Yamaguchi, 801
South Korea / Daeho Kim and Seongcheol Kim, 827
Taiwan / Yu-li Liu, Yuntsai Chou, Kuo-Feng Tseng, Ru-shou Robert Chen, Yi-hsuan Chiang, and Ping-hung Chen, 847
E. MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Egypt / Nagla Rizk, 883
Israel / Amit M. Schejter and Moran Yemini, 942
South Africa / George Angelopulo and Petrus H. Potgieter, 986
III. SUMMARIES AND ANALYSES
National media concentrations compared, 1017
European trends / Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, 1042
Media Industry in International comparison, 1054
The World's major media companies, 1109
The Owners of the World's media, 1180
Analysis of media concentration, 1243
Findings, 1303
