Subject Index
2001: A Space Odyssey
A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. case (2001)
A. C. Nielsen Company (ACN)
ABC
ABRY Partners
access
to adult education facilities to
consumption and
to libraries, galleries and museums
problems of
acquisitions and mergers
“active audience” school of analysis
actor-network theory
ADA
adult education facilities, access to
advertising
apology for
definition
economic duties of
industries
legitimation and
strategies in the media and cultural industries
technological advances and
AFL-CIO
AGB
agenda setting
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
AIG Direct Investments
Air New Zealand
Al Jazeera
al Qaeda
Alice in Wonderland
Alien
Alien vs. Predator
alienation
All India Radio
Alliance@IBM
Allied Radio Frequency Association
allocation resources
allocative control
Alpha project
Amazon.com
Amedia Russia
America Online see AOL
American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA)
American Columbia
American Decca
American Declaration of Independence
American Economics Association
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFLCIO)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American President, An
American Record Company (ARC)
American Revolution
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T)
Annales school
anthropology
AOL
antitrust framework
AOL TimeWarner
AppleComputers
iPads
iPhones
iPod
iTunes
Arbitron
ARD
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
Armed Forces Network
Arts Council
Asia Media Festival (AMF)
Asian currency crisis (1997)
Ask.com
Associated Press vs. USA (1945)
Association of National Advertisers (ANA)
AT&T
audience
as commodity
from political economy perspective
US ratings for radio and TV
Austrian school
autonomy, concept of
Avatar
BAE
Baidu
Bank of America Capital Investors
barrier to entry
Batman Begins
Battle Field
Baumol’s Disease
BBC
BBC World
Beijing Olympics (2008)
Beijing Television
Bell Atlantic
Bell Canada Enterprises
Bell Labs
Bell Operating Companies (BOCs)
Bell South
Bell System
Benetton
Berne Convention
Bertelsmann
Best Buy
Bewitched
Big Brother
Bipartisan Campaign Act Reform Act (BCRA) (2002)
BitTorrent
‘black’ markets
Blackwater (renamed Xe)
Blockbuster
blogging
Bloomberg TV
BMG Music
BMW
Boeing
Bolloré
Bollywood
Born of Hope
Boxer Rebellion
Boy Scouts
brand equity
brand image
brand licensing
brand loyalty
Brand X
branded goods, transition from generic to
branding
culture and
global culture and
national cultures and
from political economy to cultural economy
value and
BrandZ survey
British Aerospace
British Airways
British Broadcasting Corporation see BBC
British Museum
British Telecom
Broadcast Music, Incorporated (BMI)
Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (BCNZ)
broadcasting, definition
Buccaneer, The
Bush, George W., administration
C. E. Hooper Company (CEH)
Cable and Wireless
Cable Communications Act (1984)
cable television
CACI
Cadbury
Calvinist ethic
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Canadian NABET
Canadian National Commission for Unesco
Canal Plus
Canal Plus International
capital, definition
capitalism
capitalist economy and the transnational venture, diffusion of
capitalist mode of production
capitalist realism
Capitol
Capitol-EMI
Caracol
Caroline
“carrier”
Castaway Productions
catalogue dialectic
Cathay
Cato Handbook for Congress
Cato Institute
Cauley and Diamond
CBC
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. v. ABC, Inc. 2003
CBS Records
CCTV
Center for a Changing Workforce
“centralization”
centrifugal tendencies in distribution
centripetal tendencies in production
CEP
CEP Humanity Fund
Charlie’s Angels
Chicago Federation of Labor
Chicago Schools
China Film Overseas Promotion Corporation
China Mobile
China Netcom
China
brands
Communist Party (CPP)
Cultural Revolution
film industry
global dimensions and
Great Leap Forward
post-Communist modernization process
soft power
television
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
ChoicePoint
Chronicles of Narnia, The
CIA
cinemas
digital, 3D, IMAX
enhanced theatrical environment
new home exhibition technology
Cisco Systems
citizens’ journalism
citizenship
Citysearch
civic ignorance
civil rights
civil society
Clear Channel
Clinton, William (Bill) Jefferson, administration
CNBC
CNN
CNNI
Coca Cola
cocreation
coevality
Columbia
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) see CBS
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee
Columbia Capital
Columbia Phonograph Company
Columbia Pictures Entertainment
Comcast
command economies
“command-and-control” model
commercial nationalism
commercial television
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
commodification
commoditization, culture and
commodity
concept of
definition
possessions and dispossessions
commodity fetishism
“common carrier”
communication economy
communication global government
communication rights
Communication Rights in Information Society (CRIS)
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) (1994)
communications goods
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP)
company size
Compaq
comparative literature
comparative media history
competing moral economies
Computer Inquiries
concentration in the media and cultural industries
Consejo Audiovisual de Cataluña
consumer
definition
discipline
to prosumer
sensitivity
consumer society
“consumer-frustration” hypothesis
“consumerism”
contingent valuation
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
convergence
culture
creativity and exploitation
Convergence Culture Consortium
Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (CAB)
Co-ordination of Network Infrastructure
copyright
corporate convergence
corporate free speech
corporate legal person
corporate person, rights of
corporate welfare
cost-accounting approach
Crackle
creative cultural labor
creative destruction
creative industries
as new growth sector
creative labor
normative conception of
creative migration
creative/participatory method
creditworthiness
critical cosmopolitanism
critical political economy
definition
need for
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
cult fetishisms
cultural authority model
cultural commodity
cultural consumption time
cultural demand
cultural dependence theory
cultural diversity
cultural goods
cultural imperialism
cultural industries
economic and financial strategies of capital holders
functioning modalities
individualization, differentiation and mediatization
legal and political shifts
mutations and reconsiderations
origins of theory
propositions
cultural labor
cultural pollution
cultural production studies
cultural studies
cultural synergy
culture
commoditization and
communication and, dissociation
culture industries
CWA
“Cyber Storm”
cybernetic audience
Cyberspace
Da Vinci Code, The (2006)
Dallas
Dark Knight, The
data brokerage industry
David Jones
De Clercq Report
Decca
decolonizing of media and communication studies
dedisciplining of media and communication studies
Defense Communications Agency
Defense Evaluation Research Agency
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
defining markets
economic relationships and capable entities
institutional structures
legal basis
democracy deficit
democracy-strangulation’ hypothesis
democratization
denationalizing of media studies
dependency theory
in communication field
and underdevelopment interpretation
Desperate Housewives
deterritorialization
Deutsche Telecom
“dewesternizing as dedisciplining”
diaspora studies
differentiation
digital divide
“digital enclosures”
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE)
digital gifting
Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB)
digital music, studies of
digital production
digitalization
Digitalizing the Commons
digitization
disability benefits
disintermediation
Disney, Walt
ABC network
theme parks
Disneyland
disposability
Distant Early Warning line
District
Diversity Index (DI)
diversity of media
Dolby Laboratories
dominant ideology theory
Dori Media Group
Doritos
dotcom bubble
Dr. Strangelove
Dubit
Duffy
Dunn & Bradstreet
E1 Entertainment Distribution
eBay
e-commerce
economic liberty
economic power and transnational information flows
economic structures, actors and roles
economics, synergy
economy
rationality and irrationality of
economy of gifts
ed2k-it
editorial model
Electrical and Musical Instruments see EMI Group
“electronic battlefield”
EMI Group
empire as American Ideology
enclosure movement
encoding/decoding model (Hall)
Endemol
Enlightenment
Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC)
environmental simulacra
equality
equalization
Equifax
ETV
Euro
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
European Parliament (EP)
European Union (EU)
institutions, awareness about
political ignorance in
“television without borders” directive
Europolitics
experiential marketing
Exxon
fair market value
“Fairness Doctrine” rules
Falcon Investment Advisors
Falun Gong
“fast moving consumer goods” (FMCG) brands
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Communications Act (1934)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
“Do Not Call Registry”
field theory (FT)
films
Chinese
as commodity
Indian
see also Bollywood; Hollywood
financialization
“five Ps”
Flickr
flow model
flow industries
Forbes
“force transformation”
Fordism
Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology (FAST)
Format Recognition and Protection Association (FRAPA)
Fox
Fox Cable News
Fox Network
Fox News
frame of law and formal regulation
frame of professional responsibility
frame of public responsibility
Frankfurt School
Free and Responsible Press, A
free flow
Free Press
free speech, corporate
freedom of speech and thought
freedom of the press
Freelancers Union
“Fremantle Media”
French Revolution
frictionless economy
full citizenship
galleries, access to
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
General Electric
General Foods
General Interaction
genes, patenting
gifting
Gillette
Gini index
global capitalism
ICTs and temporal acceleration
Global Crossing
Global Disney Audiences project
Global Gaming Factory
Global Information Grid (GIG)
Global Media Capital
Global Media Watch
global modernity
Global Voices Online
Globo
glocalization,
“Ad Sense” policy
advertising on
book digitialization
Page Ranks
pay-per-click application
GOPUSA
government pressure
Gramophone Company
Gramscian framework
Graphic Artists Guild
“Great Society”
Green v. Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand case (1989)
gross domestic product (GDP)
GTE Corp.
Hachette
Hangover, The
“harm principle”
Hays Committee
healthcare
hegemony
Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI)
Hero
Hertzian network
Hewlett Packard
“high-concept” movie
history of communication
holiday entitlements
Hollywood
big pictures/big box office
continuity
corporate
distribution outlets
film distribution
film exhibition
film financing
film marketing/promotion
foreign production and
future of
global markets
independent film distribution and
new formations and competition
online distribution
profit
resistance to US dominance
synergistic processes within
threat of piracy
world and
“Home Front”
Homeland Security Act (2002)
homogenization
Hooperatings
horizontal integration
HSBC
Hulu
human commodity
Hutchins Commission Report (1947)
hybridization
I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here
IAC
IBM
Semi- Automated Ground Environment
ICICI
identity manipulation
identity theft
ideology
IGN.com
iiNet
Ikea
IMAX theaters
InCom
Independence Day
India
brands
films
individualization
Indosiar
industrial organization model
Industrial Revolution
information divides
information economics
information economy
information gaps
Information Guerrilla
information labor
information industries
“Information Operations Roadmap”
information poor
information poverty
information society (IS)
Information Society theories
information workers
Infosys
institutional convergence
Instituto de la Comunicación de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
integrated spontaneity
Intel
intellectual property
see also copyright; patents; trademarks
Inter-Department Radio Advisory Committee
International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems,
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
International Telegraph Union (ITU)
International Typographical Workers Union (ITU)
internationalizing
Internet
intellectual property and
marketization and
speed
Web 2.0
iPad (Apple)
iPhone (Apple)
iPod (Apple)
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)
isoHunt
iTunes (Apple)
Jaws
“journalism regulation”
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KeyChest
knowledge as civic prerequisite
knowledge economy
knowledge gaps
knowledge workers
Krrish
Kung-fu Hustle
Kwakiutl people
Kyoto Accords
labor discipline problem
labor
of consumption
in political economy of communication
in political economy of culture
unpaid
Labor Union Convergence
labor unions
Lagardère
lean manufacturing
Leccardi, Carmen
Legendary Pictures
Lehman Brothers
Lexus
Liberal Market Model (Adam Smith)
Liberty Media Group
libraries, access to
“limited-effects” paradigm
Linden Lab
linotype
liquid modernity
lobbyists
local media policy
Lockheed Martin
logic of accumulation
logic of expansion
logo
Long Term Capital Management
long-playing microgroove record (LP)
Lord of the Rings, The
Lost
loyalty programs
M/C Venture Partners
Maastricht Treaty (1992)
MacBride Report
macroeconomics
macrosociology of media
Manpower
MapQuest
Marché International des Programmes de Télévision (MIP-TV)
market censorship
market economies
market forces
market frame
market fundamentalism
Marlboro
Married with Children
Marxism
branding and
mass communication, contemporary
mass culture
mass ideological reproduction
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Master Image
Match.com
Matrix
Matsushita
MCA
McBride Commission
McDonald’s
MCI
media accountability systems (MAS)
media capital
media economics
“media enterprises”
Media–Government Symbiosis in the United States
Media Matters
media modernities
media ownership, concentration, and control
media policy
media-political system (“media-political complex”)
“mediacracy”
MediaDefender
MediaSentry
Mediaset
mediatization
Mega
mercantilism
MGM
MGM v. Grokster (2005)
Microsoft
militarization of US communications
Millward Brown Optimor
minimum wages
mobile phone
modernity theory
Modified Final Judgment (MFJ)
Monarch Project (Proyecto Monarca)
Mondiacult
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
motion pictures see films
Motorola
Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales (MAUSS)
Movement of Non-Aligned Countries
“movie theaters”
MovieFone
MP3 technology
MSNBC
MTV
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)
Muraro’s Memorandum
museums, access to
music industry
cassette era
classic studies of
contemporary recorded music industry
critical theory and Marxist approaches
digital era
electrical era
international studies of
legal studies of
sources for studying
Mutiny on the Bounty
MySpace
Nanny, The
Napster
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET)
National Association of Communication Unions
National Association of Television Producers Exhibition (NATPE)
National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA)
National Cable and Telecommunications Association v. Brand X
National Communications System
National Cyber Range
national insurance scheme
National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center)
National People’s Congress (NPC)
National Phonograph Company
National Security Agency
National Security Council
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)
National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
National Writers Union
nation-states, brand image of
NATO
Communications and Information Systems Agency
Frequency Authority
“natural laws”
natural monopoly
“natural rate of unemployment”
NBC
NBC Universal
neoauthoritarianism
neoconservativism
neoliberalism
NeoPets
Nestlé
Net Generation
Net-Centric War
Netflix
network society
New Deal
new global social movements and media
new illiterate
“New International Division of Cultural Labor” (NICL)
New International Economic Order
New Line
new media
New Trade Union Initiative
New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO)
Newitz, Annalee
News Corporation
Newspaper Guild
Newspaper Preservation Act (NPA)
newspapers
NHK
Nielsen Company
Nike
Niketalk
Ninera, La
Nippon T&T
Nixon, Richard, administration
Nokia
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
North American Critical School
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization see NATO
Novell
Nuevo Orden Mundial de la Información y la Comunicación (NOMIC)
O’Melveny and Meyers LLP
observatories
official nationalism
oligopolization
Open Source Footwear initiative
“operational” control
Opportunity Knocks
Oracle
organizational communication and labor
organizational sociology of culture (OSC)
ORTF
Our World
outsourcing
Pact on Civil and Political Rights
Pact on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights (1966)
Page Ranking system
PageRank
Paramount
Paramount Pictures vs. USA cases (1948)
Paranormal Activity
participatory information
passive consumers
patents
pay-per-click
Pear’s
peer-to-peer sharing
pensions
Percy
perfect competition market
Periodismo Ciudadano
personal computer (PC)
Personal Genome Project
personal information
capture of
estimating value of
markets in
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of
Philip Morris Tobacco Company
Philips
phonograph
photoengraving
physiocrats
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Pixar
political action committees (PACs)
soft money and
political economy (PE)
political economy of active knowledge seeking
political economy of audiences
political economy of culture (PEC)
political economy of information
political economy of labor
political economy of personal information
political economy of political ignorance
political economy of the information society (PEIS)
political ignorance,
“political liberty”
PolyGram group
pornography
Post Office
postindustrial technical system
postmodern poverty
postnational concept
poststructuralism
potlatch
print capitalism
privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs)
privatization
of media
Procter & Gamble
production of culture approach
production-oriented theory of value
Professional Writers Association of Canada
profit maximization
“program media”
Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF)
progress, mirage of
Prometheus decision (2003) of the Third Court of Appeals
promotion of commodity culture
promotional culture’
property rights
in cyberspace
prosumers
prosumption
Providence Equity Partners
public broadcasting
“public goods”
public interest
public reason
public service
public service broadcasters (PSBs)
Public–Private Dichotomy
QinetiQ
Qualcomm
Quebec Solidarity Fund
Qwest
radio
broadcasting
communication, definition
US ratings
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP)
Radio Luxembourg
Rand Corp.
Raytheon
RCA
RCA Corporation
RCA Records
RCA-Victor
RCN Television
Reagan, Ronald, administration
RealD
recorded music industry
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
RED
“redeployment”
Reed Elsevier
Reed International
Reguladora da Comunicação Social (ERC)
regulatory adjustments
rehabilitation of cultures
“relative autonomy” of cultural workers
Reporters Without Borders
reproduction and distribution
retail franchising
Reuters
revolving door
right to communication
rights of access to a shared physical commons
Roebuck
Rolls-Royce
rotary press
RTF
Samsung
sanctity of private property
Sandia Laboratory
Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railway
SBC Communications
Schiller–McChesney tradition
schooling, compulsory
Scout Media
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Seagram
search engine (SE)
see also Google
Sears
Second Life
Selfridge’s
September 11th, 2001
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
shared fate
Shaw Brothers
Shell
SIC
Silicon Valley
Sindlinger & Co.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
social housing
social importance
Social Movement Worker Organizations
social networks
Sociedad de la Información
Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA)
“sociocultural variation”
sociologists
soft money and PACs
Sony
Sony-BMG
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Pictures Television International
Sound Recording Act (1971)
South Korea, public and private mechanisms in
sovereignty, principle of
Soviet Union, collapse of
Spanish–American War
Spider-Man 3
Spotify
Sprint
Sprint Nextel
spyware
standardization
Star Trek
Star TV
Star Wars
Starbuck
STRATCOM
Strategic International Communications
strategic regionalism
structural adjustment
STS
Sun
Sun Media
Sun Microsystems
Sundance Film Festival
Superman Returns
supply and demand, law of
supply–driven markets
Survivor
sustainability
Symantec
synergy
conceptualizing
cultural
economic
as a transindustrial process
Systems Administrators Guilds
Talon News
Tata Group
TBS
TCI
Teamsters Union
Technological Determinism, fallacy of
Telecom Italia
Telecommunications Act (1996)
Telecommunications and the Culture Industries
Telecommunications Workers Union (TWU)
Telefe
Telefonica
telegraph
Telenet
telephone system
landline
mobile
Televisa
television
cable
Chinese
commercial
formats
markets in
US ratings
Television Azteca
“Television Without Borders”
Terra Firma Capital Partners
“terrorism informatics”
theories of the firm
Thing, The
Third Wave
Thorn Electrical Industries
Thorn EMI
Threadless
Tibetan Autonomous Region National People’s Congress
Time Inc.
Time magazine
Time Warner
time, space, and globalization
time-space compression,
Titanic
T-Mobile
Top Gun
TorrentBox
TorrentSpy
Toscani
Toshiba
Tourism New Zealand (TNZ)
tourism, branding
Toyota
Toyotism
trademarks
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
transaction costs
transaction-generated information (TGI)
transformation
Transfrontier Television Directive
translocality
“transmodernity”
transnationalizing
TransUnion
tube dialectic
TV Globo
TV Media
TV SBT
TVN
Twentieth Century Fox
Tyco International
UMG
unemployment benefits
unemployment, definition
Unesco
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Unilever
Union for IT Enabled Services (UNITES) (India)
Union Network International (UNI)
United Artists
United Independent Broadcasters
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Security Council
Universal
Universal Copyright Convention (UCC)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Universal Music Group
Uruguay Round
US Customs and Border Protection
US Declaration of Independence
US Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
US public interest reasoning
US vs. Midwest Video Corp
US vs. Southwestern Cable
US vs. Western Electric
use value
user-generated content (UGC)
V Cast
valuation
of intangibles
of personal information
value-added services
value of brand
value, theories of
Venevision
Veoh
Verisign,
Verizon
Verizon Communications
Verizon Wireless
Verve
Viacom
Victor Talking Machine Company
Videotron
Vietnam War
Vimeo
Virgin
Virgin Records
visibility logic
Vivendi
Vivendi Universal
volunteering
Wal-Mart
Wall Street financial crisis
War of the Worlds
“War on Terror”
Warner Bros
Warner Communication
Warner Music Group
WashTech
Wax Trax! Records
WCFL
“welfare-as-semen theory”
welfare capitalism
Welfare Reform Act (1996)
welfare state
Western Electric
Who’s the Boss
Wi-Fi
Wikipedia
willingness to pay
Wi-Max systems
Wipro
WMG
work of consumption
levels of
productivity of
Workers’ Education Association
Working Today
World Association of the Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
World Bank
World Conference on Cultural Policies
World Economic Forum
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
World Investment Report
World Social Forum of Porto Alegre in 2003
world system theory
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Xbox
XpanD
Yahoo
Yash Raj Films
“YOU”
YouTube (Google)
Zee
Zomba