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Smith, Erin Copple.

Cross-Promotion at Cross Purposes: Media Conglomerates and the Logics of Synergy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cross-Promotion at Cross Purposes: Media Conglomerates and the Logics of Synergy.
Author:	Smith, Erin Copple.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-10(E), Section: A.
Notes:	Adviser: Jonathan Gray.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-10A(E).
Subject:	Business Administration, Management.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3512321
ISBN:	9781267412119

Cross-Promotion at Cross Purposes: Media Conglomerates and the Logics of Synergy.
Smith, Erin Copple.

Cross-Promotion at Cross Purposes: Media Conglomerates and the Logics of Synergy. - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2012.

Since the extensive de-regulation of media ownership in the 1980s, media corporations have combined to form giant conglomerates, the arms of which extend across all forms of media, and frequently into non-media enterprises. The trend toward increased conglomeration within these industries is indisputable, but the results of conglomeration on media content are still hotly debated. Many scholars argue that conglomeration leads to changes in content, particularly in the practice of using conglomerate-owned properties to promote other conglomerate-owned properties---an exercise known as cross-promotion. Given the economic and political reach of media conglomerates within contemporary society, understanding the decision-making processes within these institutions is essential. This project seeks to develop a clearer understanding of the logics of media conglomeration, and its fundamental motive of synergy by interrogating the most common evidence of synergistic efforts: cross-promotion.

ISBN: 9781267412119Subjects--Topical Terms:

212493
Business Administration, Management.

Cross-Promotion at Cross Purposes: Media Conglomerates and the Logics of Synergy.
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