In the last half century, the media environment of the US and, following its example, much of the world has been transformed. Multinationals and ad agencies mold consciousness, hammering in certain messages and suppressing others. Global management of information by corporate overseers who supervise every step of the process now poses as great a threat to self-government as pollution does to the environment.
How Corporations Became People
Total Exposure (or, how we gave up privacy and learned to love Big Brother)
Paradoxes of the Information Age