[ecrea] Media Ownership and Agenda Control: The hidden limits of the information age

My new book on media ownership 
<https://www.routledge.com/Media-Ownership-and-Agenda-Control-The-hidden-limits-of-the-information/Schlosberg/p/book/9781138775459> 
(with apologies etc..)

/Media Ownership and Agenda Control offers a detailed examination of 
media ownership amidst the complexities of the information age, from the 
resurgence/

/of press barons to the new influence wielded by internet giants. Much 
of the discussion pivots around recent revelations and controversies in 
the media/

/industry, such as the findings published in 2012 from the Leveson 
Inquiry, the US Federal Communications Commission’s ruling on net 
neutrality in 2015, Edward/

/Snowden’s decision to leak National Security Agency (NSA) documents in 
2013 and the legal battles over ancillary copyrights waged in Germany 
and elsewhere./

/Justin Schlosberg traces the obscure and often unnoticed ways in which 
agendas continue to be shaped by a small number of individual and 
institutional megaphones,/

/despite the rise of grassroots and participatory platforms, and despite 
ubiquitous displays of adversarial journalism. Above all, it explores 
the web of/

/connections and interdependence that binds old and new media 
gatekeepers, and cements them to the surveillance and warfare state. 
This ultimately foregrounds/

/the book’s call for a radical rethink of ownership regulation, 
situating the movement for progressive media reform alongside wider 
struggles against the iniquities/

/and injustices of global capitalism./

//

*Professor Greg Philo (Glasgow Media Group)*: “a really excellent 
account of how agenda control in the information age is secured through 
alliances between political, economic and media elites. It is essential 
reading for contemporary social science and media studies - and 
especially for students and teachers interested in how communications 
relate to political and economic power”

*Paul Mason (author and journalist)*: “In an analytical tour de force, 
Schlosberg weaves through the complexities of media political economy in 
the 21^st century, illuminating the often unseen ways in which both old 
and new forms of media power are coalescing and deeply impacting on the 
mainstream agenda. A must read for anyone with a concern for the media’s 
enduring potential to distort public debate and subvert democracy, as 
well as how things could be different.”

*Professor Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths College)*: "This is a vitally 
important book for anyone interested in the relationship between media, 
power and democracy. With deftness and critical diligence, Schlosberg 
redefines debates over media ownership and control for the digital age. 
He reveals that far from power waning in a world of media abundance, the 
agenda influencing power of major media brands is in fact evolving. And 
then he tells us what we can do about it. Brilliant."


Email (j.schlosberg /at/ bbk.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.schlosberg /at/ bbk.ac.uk)>

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