audiences and policy makers around theworld. This new edition is comprehensively updated to reflect themany fast moving developments associated with this dynamicfield.A new edition of the most definitive text on multi-nationalcommunication and media conglomerates, each chapter updated withextensive new detailsCovers the expanding area of global communication and describesmajor multimedia conglomerates, particularly in the USA, includingthe purchase of NBC-Universal by Comcast and Disney's expansion inChinaIncludes new information on the phone hacking scandal by NewsCorporation’s employees in the UKExplains the significant changes in the communication industryboth in the US and elsewhereChronicles the continuing story of the development of ArabMedia with new coverage on the Arab SpringOffers an updated companion website with instructor'smanual, test banks and student activities, available uponpublication at www.wiley.com/go/mcphail

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