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Independent media refers to any media, such as television, newspapers, or Internet -based publications, that is free of influence by government or corporate interests. The term has varied applications. Independence stands as a cornerstone principle within media policy and the freedom of the press, representing an "essentially contested concept".
Understanding Media. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study. He suggests that the medium affects the society in which it plays a role mainly by the characteristics of the medium rather than the content.
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and ...
Community media are any form of media that function in service of or by a community. It is the rise of all kinds of alternative, oppositional, participatory and collaborative media practices that have developed in the journalistic context of ‘community media,’ ‘we media,’ ‘citizens media,’ ‘grassroot journalism’ or any radical alternative to on and offline mainstream ...
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century is a book by Robert W. McChesney first published in 2004 by Monthly Review Press. The book discusses issues within journalism (e.g. biased news, declining quality of content, etc.), as well as weaknesses in the media sector, and new ways to regulate such.
Media culture, with its declinations of advertising and public relations, is often considered as a system centered on the manipulation of the mass of society. [5] Corporate media "are used primarily to represent and reproduce dominant ideologies." [6] Prominent in the development of this perspective has been the work of Theodor Adorno since the ...
The most known company of the group is Jurnal TV. Besides the central office in Chişinău, the channel is working to open representations in Bălţi and Cahul . The head of Jurnal Trust Media is Val Butnaru. The Trust comprises also newspapers Jurnal de Chişinău, ECOnomist, Apropo Magazin, and radio station Jurnal FM.
Goldman Sachs has asked its team to "coordinate" on events and spending around the Paris Olympics in a bid to stop employees sneaking off to the Games and having the bank pick up the tab.. New ...