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AbstractThe mass media are no doubt a political resource. In a plural and deeply divided society like Nigeria, its role is even more imperative in achieving national cohesion, integration, and stability. The snag however in Nigeria is that the mass media – both publicly and privately owned – are more or less ethnic jingoist. This research note takes a cursory look at the mass media and ethnicity in Nigerian politics, and infers that in the interest of the polity, media practitioners need to imbibe the ethics of their profession.

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Migration, media, and social space -- Relational glocalities -- Singaporean cultures of migration and media -- Geographies -- Cartographies -- Glocal cosmopolitanism

The use of mass media to shape public opinion, disseminate public information, and transform political culture, has grown tremendously in developing countries during the last two decades. Many of these countries have raised the slogan of "creationg a new man," that is, one with skills, attitudes, and values that are conducive to development. In this respect, they have relied on mass media as a major purveyor of modern influences and as one of the most effective agents of political resocialization.

This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author Douglas Gomery chronicle the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. They also examine how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in all segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces. This third edition of

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Although image making has been part of Ameri can politics for some time, recent years have focused attention upon the professional image maker and the use of the mass media in image making. There are two major theories of image making, one stresses qualities a candidate projects, the other the predispositions voters project upon candidates. Each thesis attributes differing tasks to the political image maker. A more useful view is to regard image making as a joint enterprise of candidates, profes sionals, and voters. Since voters seek certain role and sty listic qualities in their ideal candidates, professional image makers act as brokers using the mass media to highlight appropriate qualities of clients. In striving to make voters aware of, interested in, and favorable to their candidates, professionals have adopted a variety of changing tech niques in the last three decades, techniques gradually adapted to the underlying character of mass communica tion. The relative success of these techniques depends upon the specific goals sought and the increasing profes sionalization of American political campaigns.

The article reveals basic ideas and mainstream of discussions concerning mass media, shows transformation of mass media functions in a historical retrospective. Some major functions of mass media are analyzed: realization of political dialogue; running of profitable business; influence on social and cultural spheres; spreading political influence on the international level. The author focuses on the increasing complexity of mass media functioning and the growth of the economic component in media corporations' activity.