Chapter 1 Introduction: Integrating a Continent for a Transnational World Chapter 2 NAFTA and Economic Integration in North America: Regional or Global? Chapter 3 Globalization and Latin Media Powers: The Case of Mexico's Televisa Chapter 4 Globalization, Cultural Industries, and Free Trade: The Mexican Audiovisual Sector in the NAFTA Age Chapter 5 The Reorganization of Spanish-Language Media Marketing in the United States Chapter 6 Telecommunications after NAFTA: Mexico's Integration Strategy Chapter 7 Networking the North American Higher Education Industry Chapter 8 Commerce versus Culture: The Print Media in Canada and Mexico Chapter 9 Whose Hollywood? Changing Forms and Relations inside the North American Entertainment Economy Chapter 10 Upmarket Continentalism: Major League Sport, Promotional Culture, and Corporate Integration Chapter 11 Multimedia Policy for Canada and the United States: Industrial Development as Public Interest
Vincent Mosco is professor of communication, sociology, and political economy at Carleton University and a research affiliate with Harvard University's Program on Information Resources Policy. Dan Schiller is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This enlightening book shows that the Canadian and North American
Free Trade Agreements—and the associated economic integration of
North America—are parts of a larger corporate globalization
process, whose organizers aim to weaken or eliminate any national
or public service barriers to the pursuit of bottom line interests.
As the authors describe convincingly here, this process is
extending and globalizing commercialization from
telecommunications, through all media forms, to major league sports
and even higher education. In the process, not only are national
and public service interests threatened, the displacement of
citizens in favor of consumers (and the globalizing corporations
who serve them) threatens democracy itself.
*Edward S. Herman, University of Pennsylvania*
An impressive collection by some of the leading scholars of
political economy.... The patterns traced in the North American
setting are fraught with significance for other economic regions
and the wider transition to a global economy. This book is an
invaluable resource for researchers as well as advocates seeking to
understand these powerful techno-economic forces and pursue more
humanly-oriented alternatives.
*Andrew Clement, University of Toronto*
A tremendous and complete view of the new complex phenomenon in
cultural industries after NAFTA and of the resulting relationships
between Mexico, Canada, and the United States. This book is just
perfect for students and researchers.
*Laura Márquez, Universidad Regiomontana*
Continental Order?, edited by two leading scholars of the North
American political-economy tradition, offers an important and
timely continental perspective on the restructuring of the
communication industries in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
The sum total of the collection is a surprisingly rich and
wide-ranging picture of the rapidly evolving North American
communications order.
*Canadian Journal of Communication*
Contains excellent political economy case histories.
*European Journal Of Communication*
Culture, media, and the information industries in general are
increasingly converging and, as they do so, national frontiers
become increasingly irrelevant to the corporate interests that
organize and arrange them. Simultaneously, market criteria more and
more determine what gets published, what gets taught, and what gets
viewed. This book is packed full of closely-argued and evidenced
materials about processes of the utmost importance to each and all
of the citizens of the North American continent.
*Frank Webster, University of Birmingham*
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