ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on how media corporations are both shaped by and exercise economic, political, and cultural power. Although the comments and analysis are separated into these three spheres, the main argument presented here is that power itself is always relational, while at other times in contradictory ways. However, the authors find the radical view of power to be the most useful because it explicitly critiques the unequal distribution of resources and the ways in which this inequality is reproduced over time. In this sense, they are following Des Freedman's work in The Contradictions of Media Power, wherein media power is described as both a consequence and an increasingly significant component of continuing, processes of social reproduction. The relationships of media corporations with political power involve different approaches and practices depending on specific interactions with different institutional powers of states around the globe.
