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About Benjamin Compaine

Ben Compaine is currently a senior research affiliate at the Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium at M.I.T.

Articles by Benjamin Compaine

Wednesday 8th May

A world without absolutes

Benjamin Compaine, 8 May 2002

Benjamin Compaine concedes that most participants in openDemocracy’s media ownership debate sympathised with Robert McChesney, but draws from its global perspective support for his claim that pluralism and diversity are compatible with a market-based system.

Thursday 22nd November

The workable real versus the absolutist ideal

Benjamin Compaine, 22 November 2001

Robert McChesney’s criticism of the media ownership system depends on a form of absolutism that, without evidence, deplores existing diversity in the name of an ideal alternative. What would the latter look like?

Thursday 8th November

The myths of encroaching global media ownership

Benjamin Compaine, 8 November 2001

Media conglomerates are not as powerful as they seem, for even corporations must respect the discipline of the market. A diverse media reflects the plurality of publics in modern society. This is democracy in action.