Media Capitalism: Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introducing Media Capitalism -- Media Capitalism and PR's Spin Doctors -- The Ideology of Media Capitalism -- Two Transitions Towards Media Capitalism -- Conspiracy Therapy and Interest Symbiosis -- The Structure of the Book -- The Introductory Chapter: Introducing Media Capitalism and Ideology -- Media Capitalism's History -- The Public Sphere -- Children and Schooling -- Universities -- Society -- Human Behaviour -- Work -- Democracy -- Conclusion: Fragments of a Theory -- Chapter 2: The History: Of Media Capitalism -- Tribes and Slavery -- Feudalism and Religion -- Religion and Modernity -- The Rupture -- Capitalism and Consumerism -- Cohesion and Coercion -- Consumerist Ideologies -- Media Capitalism's Ideology -- Rationality and Ideology -- Supportive and Non-supportive Rationality -- Ending of Marx's Consciousness -- Inequality -- The Communism → Terrorism Shift -- Chapter 3: Media Capitalism and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 4: Media Capitalism and Schools -- Chapter 5: Media Capitalism and Universities -- Overcoming the Danger of Mass Education -- Chapter 6: The Society of Media Capitalism -- Chapter 7: Human Behaviour in Media Capitalism -- The Educational Sphere -- The Employment Sphere -- The Consumption Sphere -- The Democratic Sphere -- Chapter 8: Media Capitalism and the World of Work -- Chapter 9: Democracy Under Media Capitalism -- Media Democracy and Corporate States -- Parliamentarian Democracy as Media Spectacle -- Media Capitalism's Political Parties -- Media Capitalism and Voting -- Media Capitalism's Two-Party System -- Separating Democracy from Work and Consuming -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Media Capitalism -- Fragments of a Theory of Media Capitalism -- Creating a Post-Media-Capitalist Society -- Index.