List of tables -- List of figures -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Cultural corporations and capitalist imperatives -- Corporate strategy and structure in an age of "paranational hypercapitalism" -- Global media, regulation and the state --...

Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, fills an important neglected area in communication and media studies through its sustained, theoretically grounded, and empirically rich analysis of three of the most important...

The effects of mergers on the media marketplace have historically failed to live up to dire predictions. Mergers are often a response to technological upheaval and turbulence in the media industry and firms should be allowed to experiment with such alternative business models with the intent on...