Mercator Media Forum, Volume 3 Available to Purchase

There was once (certainly in the late 1960s from my memory) a fear that minority cultures and languages would disappear into a cultural melting pot dominated by a few majority languages and cultures, primarily English and Anglo‐American (mainly the latter half), especially through the all‐pervasive influence of mass communications. To some extent certainly United States products, especially films and television (with their marketing spin‐offs), have through their sheer commercial power come to dominate some aspects of European and world consumer culture. But at the same time, and accompanied by political, cultural and social developments, minority populations have in many cases...