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The Political Economy of Global Communication - An Introduction (Paperback)
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The Political Economy of Global Communication - An Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Human Security in the Global Economy
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Recent debates surrounding human security have focused on the
satisfaction of human needs as the vital goal for global
development. Peter Wilkin highlights the limitations of this view
and argues that unless we incorporate an account of human autonomy
into human security then the concept is flawed. He reveals how
human security is a concern with social relations that connect
people in local, national and global networks of power, structured
through capitalism and hierarchical inter-state systems. Autonomy,
as an aspect of human security, depends upon the ability of
citizens to gain information about the processes that shape their
lives. In this respect autonomy and communication are inherently
linked and are prerequisites for the establishment of meaningful
democratic systems. To what extent do developments in global
communication enhance or undermine autonomy? As the world's media
companies continue to merge, we are moving towards an ever more
commercially driven system of global information. Wilkin argues
that private ownership provides an increasingly powerful obstacle
to human autonomy, and that the neo-liberal institutional and
policy framework - now a global tendency - raises major problems
for the attainment of human security. At the same time it has
provided the ideological justification for the extension of private
power into ever wider areas of public life. Changes in global
communication reflect wider tendencies to enhance the power of
global elites at the expense of working people and the author
illustrates how and why these changes have taken place and the
forms of opposition that have arisen in response to them.
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