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Chapter 7: Thinking about Global Media Production (Global information-…
Chapter 7: Thinking about Global Media Production
different rates of internet penetration across countries and classes -> Digital Divide
Global information- roots of global media businesses and forms
news production was the first truly global enterprise: new not only deals with the events of the world, connecting the global with the local, but it also adopts a global form, being remarkably similar in style across the world
news agencies: Agence France Press, Deutsche Presse Agenteur, Reuters-> monopolised the news flow in a European cartel, collaborating closely with national press associations and newspaper chains
Associated Press & others in the US-> collapsed the cartel of European news agencies in 1934
news agencies comodified information: neutral style, pioneered a journalism of information, rather than one of opinion; speed of delivery
cartel: a formal agreement among firms in an oligopolistic industry
News agencies today compete, rather than collude, with the US being at the forefront in both information and footage dissemination
The concentration of international TV newsgathering into the hands of so few organisations results in the same TV stories being broadcast on most TV stations across the world
internet: newspaper and television news lost their stronghold on information; news now seems democratically distributed and infinitely local
Mainstream media has adapted to the internet by using social media and providing an online version,as well as generating collaborative journalism
New 'global' media environments, search engines and information access
search engines catalogue the web
greater access to different viewpoints; opposed to traditional journalism, which values creating a finite, ordered, authoritative news product
structural features that generate problems from the point of view of global access to information
ordinary search engines, which typically index only a small portion of available pages, tend to give a much higher profile to commercial sites due to the latter's marketing and technical savvyness
those who are not searching in English are disadvantaged
new search engines are ultimately dependent on the selection process made by the normal institutional gatekeepers of news-> while this may enhance the credibility of the news on offer by the news aggregator, it hardly equates to unlimited access to all information
Regulating Global Media
who produces and distributes our global information, and the extent to which national governments can control and monitor this, are important issues, reaching to the heart of democracy, security and identity