• Media concentration –
• Conglomerate – a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises
• Globalisation –
• Vertical Integration – when a media company own different businesses in the same chain of production and distrubution
• Horizontal Integration – the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain.
• Gatekeepers – in a state of power, controlling access to something and therefore often used to regulate and narrow diversity
• Regulation –
• Deregulation –
• Free market vs Monopolies & Mergers
• Neo-liberalism and the Alt-Right
• Surveillance / Privacy / Security / GDPR

David Hesmondhalgh

He critically analyse the relationship between media work and the media industry – ‘ there must be serious concerns about the extent to which this business-driven, economic agenda is compatible with the quality of working life and of human well-being in the creative industries.‘

Rupert Murdoch