Cultural chaos : journalism, news, and power in a globalised world /
Brian McNair.
- New York : Routledge, 2006.
- xxi, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Cultural chaos and the globalisation of journalism - Part I: Critiquing critical theory - 2. Materialism and the media - 3. From control to chaos - Part II: The political economy of chaos - 4. The politics of chaos: democracy, media, and the decline of deference - 5. Cultural chaos and the end of ideology - 6. Cultural capitalism and the commodification of dissent - Part III: The infrastructure of chaos - 7. Mapping the global public sphere, I: transnational satellite news - 8. Mapping the global public sphere, II: online journalism and the blogosphere - 9. From blogosphere to public sphere? - Part IV: The consequences of cultural chaos - 10. Global news culture and authoritarianism - 11. Democracy and hyper-democracy - 12. Controlling chaos - 13. Conclusion and postscript: cultural chaos and the critical project.
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Journalism--Social aspects. Broadcast journalism. Government and the press.