05 Mar 2013 2012/3-4 New media, new servitudes?
The empire has no clothes without the raiment provided by the mass media. Open journalism may be one way of holding the empire to account and of reducing servitude. Media ownership and control, news manipulation, Internet censorship, unequal access to new technologies, and a growing dependence on social media are all elements of the political and social domination of society that communication rights can challenge. |