Rantanen, Terhi (2005) Media and Globalization. London: Sage (165 pages)
Herman, Edward S. and Robert W. McChesney (1997) The Global Media. The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism. London and New York: Continuum. Introduction and Chapter 1–4 (135)
Held, David and McGrew Anthony, (2002) Globalization/Anti-Globalization. Cambridge: Polity Press (136)
Hesmondhalgh, David, (2002) The Cultural Industries. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage Publications (266)
Thomas, P.N. and Nain, Z. (eds) (2004) Who Owns the Media. Global trends and local resistances. London: WACC/ Zed Books – all chapters except Dunn, Fiol, Zhao, Thomas, Nain & Kim (= obligatory:186 pages)
Curran, James and Michael Gurevitch (eds) (2005) Mass Media and Society. 4th Edition. London: Hodder Arnold – all chapters except Boyle, Geraghty, Blumler & Gurevitch, Schudson, Zelitzer, Liebes (= obligatory:284 pages)
Hjarvard, Stig (ed.) Media in a Globalized Society. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press (289)
= total pages to read: 1461