democracy. He cites the growth of corporate power and influence along with ôthe decline of once-strong, democratic oppositional forcesö as responsible for the ôcultural-informational developmentsö of post-World War II society (p. 28). A central theme of the book is ôthe envelopment of informational and cultural space by the transnational corporate systemö (p. 5). Schiller argues that the totality of a culture is represented by a communityÆs economic life together with its symbolic content. For example, an ôautomobile, in addition to being a vehicle of transp
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