About the lecture

In this module we explore why media ownership matters, focusing in particular on: (i) the history of news media ownership in the UK, e.g. the newspaper ‘press barons’; (ii) propaganda and the nature of media power; (iii) hypodermic needle theory; (iv) radical critical responses to media power, e.g. Marxist ideas; (v) possible associated effects of media ownership.

About the lecturer

Dr Justin Schlosberg is Reader in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London. His work is concerned with questions of media ownership, ethics and justice in a post digital, post consensus world. He recently co-authored ‘The Media Manifesto’ (2020) and has researched digital agenda-setting and media political economy.