Ownership of the Mass Media

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This paper examines the current status of the internet as a method of decentralizing ownership of the mass media, and of giving the power of reaching the masses to individual people; a power which has traditionally been monopolized and regulated by the mass media conglomerates.

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"Traditionally, all of the Mass Media have been in the hands of the few and broadcast to the many, and the audience members were essentially voiceless in the face of the messages being presented. There have always been some movements of resistance against this, as is evidenced by Naomi Klein's works on "Culture Jamming" but even she states that these movements have usually amounted to no more than a "drop in a bucket." However, there is one mass medium which has given the individual so much power that it has raised the ire of the major producers of entertainment content: The Internet. "

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