. He cites the growth of corporate power and influence along with "the decline of once-strong, democratic oppositional forces" as responsible for the "cultural-informational developments" of post-World War II society (p. 28). A central theme of the book is "the envelopment of informational and cultural space by the transnational corporate system" (p. 5). Schiller argues that the totality of a culture is represented by a community's economic life together with its symbolic content. For example, an "automobile, in addition to being a vehicle of transport,
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