Resources

These resources were chosen for their relevance to corporate power and its influence on modern day media in a variety of areas.

Overview of Corporate Power

1. Anup Shah, “Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership” (2007)
2. Davidoff, S. Pondering Microsoft’s Options. (2008, May 5). New York Times, Business.
3. Ellison , S. For Bancrofts, Decision Time Is Near on Sale of Dow Jones. (2007, July 19). Wall Street Journal
4. Frank Rose, “The Civil War Inside Sony”Wired 11.02 (2003)
5. Robin Manselland M Javary, “New media and the forces of capitalism,” in Andrew Calabrese and Colin Sparks, eds., Towards a political economy of culture: Capitalism and communication in the 21st century. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield. (2004)
6. Chomsky, N. (1997 October). What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream. Z Magazine, 1-6.

Corporate Power’s Economic Influence:

1. America’s Internet Future Looking Like Its Past
   1. Link: http://freepress.net/node/37782
   2. Author: Timothy Karr
2. Bagdikian, B. (2004). The New Media Monopoly. New York City, NY: Beacon Publishing.
3. Ben Bagdikian, “The U.S. Mass Media: Supermarket or Assembly Line?” in Iyengar and Reeves, eds., Do The Media Govern? 66-76.
4. Communication Abstracts “Integrating new media and old media: seven observations of convergence as a strategy for best practices in media organizations” Author Lawson-Borders, G. Source International Journal on Media Management, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 91-99, Summer 2003
5. Croteau D. & Hoynes W., (2006). The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
6. Herman E. & McChesney R., (1997). The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism. New York City, NY: Continuum International.
7. Hurwitz, Sol. Vital Speeches of the Day.. New York: April 15, 1979. Vol. 45, Iss. 13; pg. 412
8. Project work in context: regulatory change and the new geography of media

1. 1. Link: http://www.envplan.com/epa/fulltext/a34/a34182.pdf
   2. Author: S. Christopherson
2. “The Six Key Dimensions of Understanding Media” JoAnn Yates, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Anne Jackson, Communication Technology, Winter 2008, MIT Sloan Management Review

Corporate Power’s Social Influence:

1. Communication Abstracts “Brand loyalties: Rethinking content within global corporate media” Author Murray, S. Source Media, Culture & Society, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 415-435, 2005
2. David Croteau and William Hoynes, Media/Society: Industry, Images, Audiences (3rd ed.) Pine Forge Press: 33-63 (2002)
3. “Word of Mouth on the Web: The Impact of Web 2.0 on Consumer Purchase Decisions” Cate Riegner, Journal of Advertising Research, December 2007.
4. Communication Abstracts “Communication, power and counter-power in the network society”
   1. Author Castells, M.
   2. Source International Journal of Communication, vol. 1, pp. 238-266, 2007
5. Gina Neff, “The Changing Place of Cultural Production: The Location of Social Networks in a Digital Media Industry” The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, 597.1 (2005)

Corporate Power’s Political Influence:

1. Bayard, N. (2006). General Electric makes light bulbs, bombs and your news (NBC) Can you see a Conflict of Interest? Brown Daily Herald. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1326.htm
2. “The Emerging Media Revolution: Considering the Influence of New Media Forms on Democratic Society” Michael T. Welch, November 2006.
3. Mazzocco, D. (1994). Networks of Power: Corporate TV’s Threat to Democracy. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
4. Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
   Introduction: “The Media/Democracy Paradox” 1-14
   Chapter 1: “U.S. Media at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century” 15-77
5. van Dijk, T. Power and the News Media. University of Amsterdam. 1-30.
6. Wellstone, P., Senator. (2000). Growing media consolidation must be examined to preserve our democracy. Federal Communications Law Journal, 52(3), 551.

Corporate Power’s Cultural Influence:
-National Influence

1. Communication Abstracts “The growth of self-produced media content and the challenge to media studies” Author Croteau, D. Source Critical Studies in Media Communication, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 340-344, 2006
2. Dyck, Alexander and Luigi Zingales. “The Corporate Governance Role of the Media,” University of Chicago, 2002, mimeo.
3. Giroux, H. (2001). Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture’s War on Children. New York City, NY: Macmillan.
4. James Gattuso, “The Myth of Media Concentration,”,” The Heritage Foundation (2003)
5. “Manipulating the Media” Peter T. Leeson, Christopher J. Coyne
6. New media and internet activism: from the ‘Battle of Seattle’ to blogging

1. 1. Link:http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/6/1/87.pdf
   2. Authors: R. Kahn, D. Kellner
2. “New Media at the Turn of the Century” Peter K. Yu, http://ssrn.com/abstract=965579,
3. Nicholas Garnham, “Constraints on multimedia convergence.” in William Dutton, ed., Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1996)
4. Robert McChesney, “So much for the magic of technology and the free market: the world wide web and the corporate media system.” in Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss, eds., The world wide web and contemporary cultural theory. New York: Routledge, 5-36 (2000)
5. Robert McChesney, “Fight for a Free Press” Nation (2002)

-Global Influence:

1. Castells, M. (2004). The Power of Identity. Boston, MA: BlackWell Publishing.
2. Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York City, NY: NYU Press.
3. “Should We Fear Media Cross-Ownership?” Jonathan A. Knee, Regulation, Summer 2003

General Media Technologies

1. Google – www.google.com
2. Yahoo – www.yahoo.com
3. Microsoft – www.microsoft.com
4. NBC – www.nbc.com
5. ABC – www.abc.com
6. FOX – www.fox.com
7. CBS – www.cbs.com
8. Time Warner – www.timewarner.com
9. Viacom - www.viacom.com
10. News Corp – www.newscorp.com
11. Clear Channel – www.clearchannel.com
12. YouTube – www.youtube.com
13. Facebook – www.facebook.com