News Media

Research Information Set # 2

W. Lance Bennett, New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism (2003), p. 1-40

Rhetorical Precis

W. Lance Bennett in his article “The Internet and Global Activism” predicts that media power is getting stronger day by day and political aspects are emerging in media including quantity, quality and diversity of political content in mass media. The development of communications technology has taken us a media culture, in social relations and in the policies. The communication and information systems have privileged media, this actually makes communication problems respond primarily to specific interests of sectors political and economic power. The ...