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Introducing World-Infostructure
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The Concept of the Public Sphere
The Role of the Media
Media Control and the Influence of Public Discourse
Content Choice and Selective Reporting
The Cassini Case
"Project Censored"
Commercial vs. Independent Content
Commercial vs. Independent Content: Human and Financial Resources
Commercial vs. Independent Content: Power and Scope
Commercial Media and the Economic System
Globalization of Media Power
Centralization of the Content Industry
Highlights on the Way to a Global Commercial Media Oligopoly: 1980s
Highlights on the Way to a Global Commercial Media Oligopoly: 1990s
The Big Five of Commercial Media
AOL Time Warner
Extract of AOL Time Warner’s Content Production and Distribution Holdings
Disney
Extract of Disney’s Content Production and Distribution Holdings
Problems of Media Concentration
Convergence
Media Giants Online
Commercial Content
Content as Transport Medium for Values and Ideologies
Digital Commercial Content
RESEARCH MATRIX