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Tables of Contents for The Political Economy of Global Communication
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures and Tables
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
3
Understanding Human Security
4
20
Human security and international relations
4
1
Defining human security
5
2
Security and the study of international relations
7
9
Global communication and human security
16
2
Global communication and world order
18
3
Communication, human security and the public sphere
21
3
Towards a Global Communications Industry
24
29
Global communication - a historical overview
24
3
States and mass communications
27
2
The political economy of global communication - understanding the transformation of media markets
29
2
Technology, ideology and social power in the political economy of communication
31
8
Neoliberal political economy
39
1
The impact of neoliberal political economy - globalising tendencies
40
6
A qualitative change in global communication?
46
1
Global communications? The changing structure of the communications industries
47
1
Global communication and the changing structure of ownership and control - from synergy to oligopoly
48
3
Globalisation and the information society - an introduction
51
1
Conclusions: problems for human security
52
1
Human Security and Global Communication - Into the Twenty-First Century
53
30
Knowledge, power and rationality
53
6
Communication needs and human security
59
6
Developments in the political economy of education
65
6
Global communication, information and human security
71
1
Neoliberal political economy - idealised brutality
72
8
Conclusions: obstacles to human security - the limits of neoliberal analysis
80
3
Public Sphere, Private Power - The Limits to Autonomy and Human Security
83
13
Developments in the public sphere?
83
3
A neoliberal Utopia? The information society considered
86
8
Conclusions: The Good Society?
94
2
Building the Perfect Beast: The Information Society Revealed
96
29
Democracy against capitalism? The neutered state
108
5
Human security, autonomy and the information society
113
10
Conclusion: human security and the public sphere in an age of information
123
2
Global Communication, Human Security and the Challenge to the Public Sphere
125
11
Globalisation and human security
125
1
Globalisation from above
126
5
Globalisation from below
131
2
The global public sphere and human security
133
3
Notes
136
9
Bibliography
145
15
Index
160