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Zusatztext An interesting book published by Oxford Press... Highly suggested. Informationen zum Autor Eli M. Noam is the Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility as well as a Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School, and serves as Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. He also served for three years a Commissioner of Public Services for New York State and on the White House's President's IT Advisory Council. He has written over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications journals and is the author of Media Ownership and Concentration in America. Klappentext 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. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, the book covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, wireless telecommunication and others, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Acknowledgements PART I: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Methodology PART II: Media Concentration Around the World -- Country Studies A. Europe 3. Belgium - Peggy Valcke, Jo Groebel, and Moritz Bittner 4. Finland - Mikko Gronlund 5. France - Patrick-Yves Badillo, Dominique Bourgeois, and Jean- Baptiste Lesourd 6. Germany - Julia Bösch, Max-Josef Meier, Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, and Achim Ekkehard Henning Wolf 7. Ireland - Roddy Flynn and Paschal Preston 8. Italy -Giuseppe Richeri and Benedetta Prario 9. The Netherlands - Joost van Dreunen 10. Portugal - Paulo Faustino 11. Russia -Elena Vartanova 12. Spain - Juan P. Artero and Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero 13. Sweden - Robert G. Picard, Mart Ots, and Madison Forsander 14. Switzerland - Patrick Badillo and Dominique Bourgeois 15. Turkey - Huseyin Kemal Bayazit 16. United Kingdom - Petros Iosifidis B. North America 17. Canad...
