The Political Economy of Global Communication : An Introduction

Intro -- 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.