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Assessment by Dr. Angus Carlyle [thesis supervisor]

Abstract

Introduction

Marshall McLuhan's Prophetic Concepts

The medium is the message

The global village

Hot and cold media

Rear-view-mirrorism

Print media

News in the hot media

Chomsky's propaganda model

Four criticisms of the propaganda model

Professionalism and objectivity

The internet

The birth of the cool

The propaganda model applied to the internet

1. Ownership

2. Advertising

3. Sourcing

4. Flak

5. Ideology

Orientalism and "Internetism"

Orientalism

Internetism

Conclusion

Bibliography

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