Media Ownership and Concentration in America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 October 2009
- ISBN 9780195188523
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 183x251x35 mm
- Weight 1043 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 174 line illustrations 0
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Long description:
The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world. Critics have long feared waves of mergers creating a handful of large media firms that would hold sway over public opinion and endanger democracy and innovation. But others believe with equal fervor that the Internet and deregulation have opened the media landscape significantly. How concentrated has the American information sector really become? What are the facts about American media ownership?
In this contentious environment, Eli Noam provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of media concentration with a methodical, scientific approach. He assembles a wealth of data from the last 25 years about mass media such as radio, television, film, music, and print publishing, as well as the Internet, telecommunications, and media-related information technology. After examining 100 separate media and network industries in detail, Noam provides a powerful summary and analysis of concentration trends across industries and major media sectors. He also looks at local media power, vertical concentration, and the changing nature of media ownership through financial institutions and private equity. The results reveal a reality much more complex than the one painted by advocates on either side of the debate. They show a dynamic system that fluctuates around long-term concentration trends driven by changing economics and technology.
Media Ownership and Concentration in America will be essential reading and a trove of information for scholars and students in media, telecommunications, IT, economics, and the history of business, as well as media industry professionals, business researchers, and policy makers around the world. Critics and defenders of media trends alike will find much that confirms and refutes their world view. But the next round of their debate will be shaped by the facts presented in this book.
Media Ownership and Concentration in Americas gestation period was roughly 10 years. It was worth the wait.... Noam is data driven and he has amassed far more data, over a far greater landscape, than any single work has before.... I highly recommend this book to anyone with a smidgeon of interest in where we've been, why we're where we are, and where we might be going in the media competition environment.
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction
: Is the American Information Sector Becoming More Concentrated?
The Dynamics of Media Concentration
Seeking the Answers
II. Mass Media
Electronic Mass Media--Local Distribution
Program Networks
Film
Music
Print and Publishing
III. Information Technology
Consumer Electronics Media Devices
The Computer Sector
IV. Telecommunications
Telecommunications Services and Equipment
The Internet: Still Wide Open and Competitive?
VI. National Concentration Trends: Summaries
National Horizontal Concentration
Vertical and Across-Industry Concentration
Local Media Concentration
The Ownership Structure of the American Information Sector
A New Concentration Index for Media
VII. Conclusions
Findings
Analysis
Bibliography
Index
