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This book offers a fresh and accessible introduction to the relationship between media power and cultural production. By marshalling a range of theoretical perspectives from political economy and cultural studies, The Media and Cultural Production invites the reader to analyze the relationship between the making of meaning, political, economic and social power and the machinery of cultural production - the media. The book: critically examines the notion of the `cultural industries'; examines the regulatory framework in which the cultural industries operate; looks at the impact of globalization on cultural production; explores the way in which meaning is both produced and contested. The Media and
Circulating Meaning II: The Public Relations-Izing of War
Circulating Meaning II: The Public Relations-Izing of War
Global network capitalists are still engaged in the process of building a global hegemony, which has come to be called the New World Order (NWO). NWO is based upon the USA possessing overwhelming military dominance. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the USA was left as the only country with the capacity to project its power globally. US power has placed US-Anglos at the centre of the emerging global networker elite. However, the US core appears to be deliberately networking itself with non-US Anglos, especially those in Britain. Globalization entails a new form of hegemony-building. This is generating a new genre of warfare – one conducted by a ‘dispersed’ ...
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