Who Owns the Media or The Emergent Organization

Who Owns the Media?: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media

Author: Benjamin M Compain

This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author Douglas Gomery chronicle the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. They also examine how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in all segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces.

This third edition of Who Owns the Media? has been reorganized and expanded, reflecting the evolution of the media industry structure. Looking beyond conventional wisdom and expectations, Compaine and Gomery examine the characteristics of competition in the media marketplace, present alternative positions on the meanings of concentration, and ultimately urge readers to draw their own conclusions on an issue that is neither black nor white.

Appropriate for media practitioners and sociologists, historians, and economists studying mass media, this volume can also be used for advanced courses in broadcasting, journalism, mass communication, telecommunications, and media education. As a new benchmark for the current state of media ownership, it is invaluable to anyone needing to understand who controls the media and thus the information and entertainment messages received by media consumers.

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The Emergent Organization: Communication as its Site and Surface

Author: James R Taylor

This volume explores communication in organizations and advances the theory that an organization is both a pragmatic and cognitive construction. It is written for scholars in organizational communication, org studies, management, and related fields.

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In this monograph, Taylor (emeritus, U. of Montreal) and Van Every apply their academic and professional experience to develop a conceptual framework based on the idea that "organization" emerges in the mix of conversational and textual communicative activities that together construct organizational identity. Applying concepts from the philosophy of language, linguistics, semiotics, system design, sociology and management theory, they put forth an argument demonstrating the materiality of language and its constructive role in organization and society. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	Theory of Communication	1
1	Organizational Communication: A New Look	3
2	Communication as Coorientation	33
3	How the a Priori Forms of Text Reveal the Organization	69
4	Language as Technology and Agent	105
Pt. II	Theory of Organization	137
5	Reinterpreting Organizational Literature	139
6	From Symbol Processing to Subsymbolic Socially Distributed Cognition	173
7	Conversation Transformed: Organization	207
8	Reenacting Enactment	243
9	Why "In"? of Maps, Territories, and Governance	276
	References	327
	Author Index	341
	Subject Index	347