Who Owns the World's Media?
Subtitle: Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 9780199987238
Subjects: Mass media, economic aspects; Telecommunication, economic aspects
Description: This publication 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, it covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, and wireless telecommunication, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.