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This module will analyse the emergence of Asian, European and North American-based but globally-known media conglomerates and the television networks distinctive to these super corporations. Media conglomerates are defined as a single company that owns and controls multiple companies involved in global media enterprises such as television, radio, film, telephony, publishing and internet. As new system builders of infrastructure, technology, policies and cultural content for the twentieth and twenty-first century, this course will probe each week one media conglomerate and one of its signature programmes/franchises as a means to assess it cultural, social and industrial impacts. For example: Sony and Columbia Pictures (Japan), Grupo Globo and Telenovelas (Brazil), Vivendi and Dailymotion (France), ITV and The X Factor (UK), CCTV and Africa Now (China), The Walt Disney Company and ABC (USA), 21st Century Fox and Fox and Friends (USA), Bertelsmann and Random House (Germany).
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Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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