Table of Contents

1. Cultural Chaos and the Globalisation of Journalism Part One: Critiquing Critical Theory 2. Materialism and the Media 3. From Control to Chaos Part Two: The Political Economy of Chaos 4. The Politics of Chaos: Democracy, Media and the Decline of Deference 5. Cultural Chaos and the End of Ideology 6. Cultural Capitalism and the Commodification of Dissent Part Three: The Infrastructure of Chaos 7. Mapping the Global Public Sphere, I: Transnational Satellite News 8. Mapping the Global Public Sphere, II: Online Journalism and the Blogosphere 9. From Blogosphere to Public Sphere? Part Four: The Consequences of Cultural Chaos 10. Global News Culture and Authoritarianism 11. Democracy and Hyper-Democracy 12. Controlling Chaos 13. Conclusion and Postscript: Cultural Chaos and the Critical Project

About the Author

Brian McNair is Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of News and Journalism in the UK, Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Union and Images of the Enemy.

Reviews

'The range of issues he examines is impressive.' – International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism