Welcome to the collaborative wiki site of the International Media Concentration project, hosted by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information with the participation of other institutions and scholars.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Media concentration is a controversial subject. One side focuses on media empires and their negative impacts. The other side believes the Internet as having opened media to unprecedented diversity. The goal of our project is to go beyond the rhetoric to an academic, empirical, dispassionate, and data-driven analysis of trends and their drivers. We have no agenda beyond understanding what is happening and why, and no preconceived notion as to the results.
Project Team and Approach
We seek to bring together scholars from about thirty countries. (See below the list of our team members). We will follow a basic common methodology for each country and a parallel work schedule. In the process we aim to create an international community of scholars. The international dimension is essential, since in every country there are special circumstances that may obscure the broader trends. The organizational structure of the project will be led by a scientific committee composed of three regional leaders:
Europe and Africa
Project Leaders
Patrick Badillo, University de la Mediterranee-Aix Marseille
Dominique Bourgeois, University de la Mediterranee-Aix Marseille
Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, University de la Mediterranee-Aix, Marseille
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Patrick Badillo, University de la Mediterranee-Aix Marseille
Dominique Bourgeois, University de la Mediterranee-Aix Marseille
Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, University de la Mediterranee-Aix, Marseille
Julia Bösch
Max-Josef Meier
Philip Rösch-Schlanderer
Sadok Hammami
Morocco : Ahmed Hidass
Piet Bakker
Bozena Mierzjewska
Elena Vartanova
Sune Tjernström
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Robert Picard
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Western Hemisphere
Project Leaders
Eli Noam, Columbia University. New York
Joost van Dreunen, Columbia University, New York
Guillermo Mastrini, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Murilo César Ramos
Dwayne Winseck, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa.
Claudia Lagos, Institute of Communication and Image, Chile.
Jose-Carlos Lozano, Director, Center for Communication and Information Research, Monterrey Technical University.
Eli Noam, Columbia University. New York
Joost van Dreunen, Columbia University, New York
Asia and Pacific
Project Leaders
Koichiro Hayashi, Institute of Information Security, Tokyo.
Kiyoshi Nakamura, Waseda University.
Rodney Tiffen, the University of Sydney
Min Hang
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Koichiro Hayashi, Institute of Information Security, Tokyo.
Kiyoshi Nakamura, Waseda University.
Hajime Yamada, Toyo University.
Teruaki Asari, Resercher, Media Development Research Institute, Inc.
Tatsuhito Shiina, Chief Researcher, Media Development Research Institute, Inc.
Motoko Yanagawa, Resercher, Media Development Research Institute, Inc.
Iwao Kidokoro, Professor, Seikei University.
Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Visiting Lecturer, Keio University (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).
Motonobu Toyoshima, Associate Professor, Keio University.
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Scope
We use a quantitative approach based on market share data for major media industries, for a period of about 20 years. For a more detailed description of our methodological framework, see the Methodology section.
Schedule
The time schedule would be a first draft by early 2009; a second draft and conference in mid 2009. A final manuscript by the end of the summer of 2009. We are currently working on the first two tables, on newspapers and TV broadcast, which are due before Christmas 2008.
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