And then there's the cultural side of the story: neoliberalism's oligopoly lockdown on the mass media is being seriously contested, for the first time ever, by a sea of non-commercial, not-for-profit, and informal media networks. It's much deeper than just digitalization, though this is part of the story. There are massive transnational audiences in the world-system today which are literate, have access to the mass media, and are beginning to shape their own political destinies in ways impossible to imagine even 10 years ago.
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True. Perhaps this is another reason behind dismantling public education.
Joanna