Althusser’s notion of ISA’s (Ideological State Apparatus)
5 Filters that help to Manufacture Consent
- Media concentration / Conglomerates / Globalisation (in terms of media ownership) – or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies
- Vertical Integration : is when a business expands by acquiring another company that operates before or after them in the supply chain.
- Horizontal Integration: is when a business grows by acquiring a similar company in their industry at the same point of the supply chain.
- Gatekeepers: someone who is exerting power
- Regulation / Deregulation
- Free market vs Monopolies & Mergers: a monopoly refers to when a company and its product offering dominate a sector of indusrty, get it from bank and government
- Neo-liberalism and the Alt-Right:
- Surveillance / Privacy / Security / GDPR
- British sociologist.
- His research focusses on the media and cultural industries, critical approaches to media in the digital age, and the sociology of music.
- The distinctive organisational form of the cultural industries has considerable implications for the conditions under which symbolic creativity is carried out’
rupert murdoch
Murdoch’s media empire includes Fox News, Fox Sports, the Fox Network, The Wall Street Journal, and HarperCollins. In March 2019, Murdoch sold the majority of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets to the Walt Disney Company for $71.3 billion.