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Book Review: Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap

has passed. Instead he anticipates that communications infrastructures, communications industries and data – including their weaponized manifestations in cyber warfare – will continue to be critical to both the exercise of power and resistance to it, both materially and ideologically. In his conclusion, Boyd-Barrett makes a very interesting and prophetic remark that as political processes become further and further removed from the material interests of the majorities of people, we will inevitably see more and more dependence on the media to create narratives and nurture ideologies whose purpose is to ‘normalize’ and ‘naturalize’ the current state of affairs of inequality and oppression. He further adds that we will also witness the formation by media of the counter-propagandas of those who are willing to contest the dominant power. Whether this happens or not, this book has certainly been an eye-opener on the dominance of Media Imperialism on the life of people at large. This book is a product of Boyd-Barrett’s professional lifetime and of his discipline. It comes equipped with nearly 29 pages of bibliography which indicates the high quality of the research. It is an insightful contribution to the field of media studies. It can serve as an introduction to the study of the topic of ‘media imperialism and its impact on the world today’ as well as serving as a guide for the deeper study of ‘issues concerning media and politics’ as it provides its provocative assessment.