LEADER 11606nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910825086503321 005 20240417021519.0 010 $a1-84964-035-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000802625 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425590 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11294759 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425590 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10369741 035 $a(PQKB)11574402 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386337 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10479868 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL987787 035 $a(OCoLC)654853199 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000802625 100 $a20010410d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe political economy of global communication $ean introduction /$fPeter Wilkin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$dc2001 215 $avi, 163 p. $cill 225 1 $aHuman security in the global economy 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-1401-5 311 $a0-7453-1406-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Understanding Human Security -- Human Security and International Relations -- Defining Human Security -- Security and the Study of International Relations -- Global Communication and Human Security -- Global Communication and World Order -- Communication, Human Security and the Public Sphere -- 2. Towards a Global Communications Industry -- Global Communication? A Historical Overview -- States and Mass Communications -- The Political Economy of Global Communication - Understanding the Transformation of Media Markets -- Technology, Ideology and Social Power in the Political Economy of Communication -- Neoliberal Political Economy -- The Impact of Neoliberal Political Economy - Globalising Tendencies -- A Qualitative Change in Global Communication? -- Global Communications? The Changing Structure of the Communications Industries -- Global Communication and the Changing Structure of Ownership and Control - From Synergy to Oligopoly -- Globalisation and the Information Society: an introduction -- Conclusions: Problems for Human Security -- 3. Human Security and Global Communication - Into the Twenty-First Century -- Knowledge, Power and Rationality -- Communication Needs and Human Security -- Developments in the Political Economy of Education -- Global Communication, Information and Human Security -- Neoliberal Political Economy - Idealised Brutality -- Conclusions: Obstacles to Human Security The Limits of the Neoliberal Analysis -- 4. Public Sphere, Private Power - The Limits to Autonomy and Human Security -- Developments in the Public Sphere -- A Neoliberal Utopia? - The Information Society Considered -- Conclusions: The Good Society? -- 5. Building the Perfect Beast: The Information Society Revealed. 327 $aDemocracy against Capitalism? The Neutered State -- Human Security, Autonomy and the Information Society -- Conclusions: Human Security and the Public Sphere in an Age of Information -- 6. Global Communication, Human Security and the Challenge to the Public Sphere -- Globalisation and Human Security -- Globalisation From Above ( GFA) -- Globalisation From Below ( GFB) -- The Global Public Sphere and Human Security -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABC, -- 49 -- 88 -- abstraction 104 -- advertising -- 105 -- 106-7 -- Agence-France Presse 50 -- Anderson, Benedict 28 -- anti-systemic movements -- 59 -- 134 -- AOL-Time Warner -- 25 -- 49 -- 74 -- 79 -- Argentina -- 88 -- 101 -- Associated Press [USA] 79 -- AT and T 49 -- authoritarian governments -- 30 -- 83 -- 84 -- autonomy -- 2 -- 6 -- 22 -- 43-4 -- 55 -- 80 -- 84 -- 96 -- 113-14 -- 114-19 -- 122 -- 125 -- Bagdikian, Ben -- 37 -- 105 -- BBC -- 28 -- 37-8 -- 128 -- Bello, Walden 129 -- Berlusconi, Silvio -- 38 -- 104 -- Bertelsmann 25 -- Bogart, Leo 71 -- Booth, Ken 7 -- Brazil -- 88 -- 101 -- 111 -- Bretton Woods -- 39 -- 41 -- 76 -- British Telecommunications [BT] 49 -- Business Week 110 -- capital accumulation -- 25-6 -- 41 -- 70 -- 108-10 -- Capital Cities -- 49 -- 58 -- capitalism -- 12-13 -- 25-6 -- 32 -- 38 -- 41 -- 63 -- 69 -- 70 -- 75-6 -- 78-82 -- 86 -- 103-5 -- 108 -- 112 -- 125 -- Carr, E.H. -- 45 -- 55 -- 127 -- China -- 30 -- 88 -- 101 -- choice -- 39 -- 81-2 -- 91 -- Chomsky, Noam -- 58 -- 95 -- 134 -- Chossudovsky, Michel 63 -- cinema 72-3 -- cities [global] 42 -- citizenship -- 22 -- 75 -- 83-4 -- 93 -- 129 -- 132 -- civil society -- 3 -- 47 -- 48 -- 59 -- 93 -- 129 -- 132 -- Claritas Corporation -- 5 -- 88 -- class conflict -- 28 -- 29 -- Clinton, President -- 7 -- 36 -- 48 -- 75. 327 $aClosed Circuit Television [CCTV] -- 36 -- 97 -- CNN 107 -- commodities [commodification] 2 -- communication -- global, 24 -- global, 24-7 -- global, 39 -- global, 62-3 -- global, 129-30 -- means of, 20 -- means of, 59 -- means of, 76 -- means of, 134 -- ownership and control, 20 -- ownership and control, 24-7 -- ownership and control, 47-8 -- ownership and control, 77 -- ownership and control, 120-122 -- ownership and control, 134 -- competition 39 -- complexity -- 8 -- 12-13 -- 45 -- Connolly, W 97 -- consumer sovereignty -- 40 -- 45 -- core capitalist states -- 31-2 -- 45 -- 73 -- 76 -- 78 -- 90 -- corporate mercantile capitalism -- corporate mercantile capitalism, 125 -- corporate mercantile capitalism, 133 -- corporate propaganda 122 -- Cox, Robert 118 -- Critical Theory 84 -- crony capitalism 89 -- cultural imperialism -- 30 -- 61 -- Dahl, Robert 21 -- Davies, Andrew 85 -- democracy/democratisation -- 17 -- 37 -- 59 -- 81 -- 84 -- 92-3 -- 96 -- 108 -- 110-11 -- deregulation -- 20 -- 40 -- 45 -- 94 -- digitisation 34 -- discourse[s] 99 -- Disney -- 25 -- 49 -- 88 -- Doyal, Len, and Gough, Ian 55 -- e-commerce 89 -- e-firms [business] 89 -- Eastern Europe -- 6 -- 44 -- 67 -- 109 -- Economist, The -- 74 -- 110 -- Education/literacy -- 59 -- 65-71 -- enabling state, the -- 67 -- 75 -- enlightenment, the -- 19 -- 54 -- 83 -- European Union [EU] -- 37-8 -- 77 -- 93 -- 110 -- 113 -- 127 -- evaluation 13-14 -- explanation -- 12-13 -- 53 -- 57 -- 58 -- fallibility 54 -- fibre-optic 34 -- financial instability -- 45 -- 89-90 -- Forbes magazine 74 -- Fortune -- 32 -- Foucault, Michel -- 53 -- 54 -- Fourth Estate [media autonomy] -- Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 2 -- Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 105 -- Fourth Estate [media autonomy], 120 -- France -- 77 -- 79 -- free trade -- 39 -- 106 -- Gates, Bill -- 34 -- 39. 327 $aGellner, Ernest 115 -- General Electric [GE] -- 25 -- 49 -- geopolitics -- 29-30 -- 69 -- 70 -- 78 -- 128 -- global economic growth 33 -- global economy -- 3 -- 39 -- 43-4 -- 75-6 -- global governance -- 76 -- 122 -- global political economy -- 32 -- 37 -- 41 -- 44 -- globalisation -- 3 -- 21 -- 41 -- 51-2 -- 125-35 -- globalisation from above [GFA] -- 85 -- 126-31 -- globalisation from below [GFB] -- 85 -- 131-34 -- Globo [Brazil] -- 107 -- 111 -- good society, the -- 4 -- 6 -- 52 -- 94-5 -- 123 -- Gore, Al -- 32 -- 48 -- G[7] -- 6 -- 30 -- 37 -- 74 -- 125 -- Habermas, Jürgen -- 19 -- 22 -- 23 -- 61-2 -- 83-4 -- 123 -- Hamelink, Cees 27 -- Harvey, David 129 -- Hull/Humberside Telecom 85 -- human rights -- 78 -- 97 -- human security -- 4-7 -- 18 -- 51-2 -- 53 -- 54 -- 58 -- 59-64 -- 70 -- 71-2 -- 81 -- 86-7 -- 92-3 -- 96 -- 113-14 -- 134 -- ideology -- 2 -- 42-3 -- 47-8 -- 61 -- 101-2 -- 103-5 -- 119-23 -- Ignatieff, Michael 22 -- indeterminacy 57-8 -- India -- 88 -- 101 -- inequality -- 21-2 -- 41-2 -- 51-2 -- 79 -- 99 -- information society -- 51-2 -- 86-95 -- 96-124 -- interests 77 -- International Financial Institutions [IFIs] -- 39 -- 42 -- 44 -- international financial transac-tions -- 89 -- 108-10 -- International Labour Organisation [ILO] 62 -- international law 69 -- International Monetary Fund [IMF] 39 -- internet -- 33 -- 37 -- interpretation [meaning] -- 12-13 -- 58 -- Jackall, Robin 107 -- Jamieson, Kathleen Hall 121-2 -- Japan -- 77 -- 88 -- 89 -- Kavanagh, Trevor 104 -- Keynes [-ianism] 110 -- knowledge -- 53-4 -- 84 -- Koss, Stephen 50 -- Labour Party [New Labour/UK] -- 49 -- 85 -- 100 -- Lafontaine, Oskar 110 -- Lazonick, William 72 -- liberalisation -- 20 -- 39-40 -- 45 -- 94 -- liberalism -- 1 -- 78 -- 81 -- Linklater, Andrew 23 -- Lippmann, Walter -- 19 -- 50 -- Malone, John 35 -- Mann, Michael -- 7 -- 14-15 -- 36 -- 88 -- markets. 327 $a50 -- 71-3 -- 81 -- 112 -- 116 -- Marx, Karl 83 -- Melody, William -- 37 -- 74 -- Microsoft -- 28 -- 35 -- 50 -- military power/research and design -- 36-7 -- 74 -- Mills, C. Wright 18 -- monopoly -- 29 -- 57 -- morality -- 61-2 -- 94 -- Mosco, Vincent 72 -- Mowlana, Hamid 106 -- Multilateral Agreement on Investment [MAI] 6 -- Murdoch, Rupert -- 49 -- 52 -- 128 -- NAFTA -- 7 -- 47 -- 93 -- 98 -- national identity 19 -- national interest -- 7 -- 55 -- NATO 6 -- NBC 49 -- needs -- 20 -- 22 -- 55 -- 59-64 -- 134 -- neo realism -- 11 -- 14 -- neoliberalism -- 2 -- 14 -- 20 -- 32 -- 39 -- 39-46 -- 71-82 -- 86-95 -- 96-124 -- 126-9 -- new economy, the 79 -- New Information Technology [NIT] -- 20 -- 25 -- 32 -- 35 -- 36 -- 37 -- 47 -- 50 -- 64 -- 68 -- 86-95 -- 96 -- 112-13 -- 132 -- New World Information and Communication Order [NWICO] 79 -- news agencies 79 -- News Corporation -- 24 -- 25 -- 49 -- 79-80 -- 100 -- 104-5 -- Newsquest [USA] 107 -- normative principles -- 54 -- 114-23 -- Nozick, Robert 81 -- O'Neill, John 107 -- objectivity 114-15 -- OECD 67 -- oligopoly -- 37 -- 57 -- 79 -- orthodox security 7-8 -- perfect information 39 -- periphery states -- 31-2 -- 45 -- Peru 32 -- Polanyi, Karl 72 -- political culture -- 82 -- 85 -- 106-7 -- 114-23 -- political economy -- 17 -- 20 -- 29 -- political identity -- 3 -- 29 -- 97-8 -- political obligation -- 23 -- 97-8 -- Polygram 25 -- Popper, Karl 116 -- postmodernism 54 -- poverty [global] -- 60 -- 62-4 -- 88 -- power 14-15 -- private power -- 3 -- 18 -- 38 -- 46-7 -- 110-11 -- 120-1 -- 133 -- privatisation -- 20 -- 40 -- 42-3 -- 94 -- profit motive 77 -- progress -- 54 -- 83 -- propaganda -- 55 -- 122 -- protectionism 75 -- public service broadcasting [PSB] -- 26-9 -- 37-8 -- public sphere[s] [local, national, regional, global] -- 20 -- 22 -- 83-6 -- 96-123 -- rational choices -- 39 -- 81 -- 114-23. 327 $arationality 60-1. 330 $aTo what extent will the merging of the world's media and telecommunications companies enhance or undermine the autonomy of ordinary citizens?. 410 0$aHuman security in the global economy. 606 $aTelecommunication$xMergers 606 $aMass media$xMergers 606 $aConsolidation and merger of corporations 606 $aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects 606 $aTelecommunication$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aTelecommunication$xMergers. 615 0$aMass media$xMergers. 615 0$aConsolidation and merger of corporations. 615 0$aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aTelecommunication$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a384/.041 700 $aWilkin$b Peter$01182862 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825086503321 996 $aThe political economy of global communication$93966098 997 $aUNINA