Media power requires a model of complex formation, not conspiracy or freedom.

Evidence

To account for such a fact we require, neither a simple “conspiracy theory” nor a simple “freedom-and-pressures” model, but rather the model of a society and its major institutions as a “complex formation structured in dominance”; a model which identifies the specificity of the different institutions within the complex of power and ideology, locates their “relative autonomy,” includes the possibility of conflict and contradictory movements between them, while retaining the notion of central areas of convergence, of conjuncture—the “overdeterminations” of power. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 858

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Hall defines his central analytic model: society as ‘complex formation structured in dominance’ with relative autonomy, conjuncture, and overdetermination.

Related

• The liberal model cannot explain simultaneous media independence and structural integration with power. (similarity 0.87)
• Media are neither state-controlled nor autonomous but oriented within power structures (similarity 0.86)
• Broadcast media hold only partial autonomy from power structures, never full independence. (similarity 0.85)
• Media reproduce dominant ideology through impartial professional norms rather than overt bias (similarity 0.83)
• Media reproduce dominant ideology through impartial professionalism, not open bias. (similarity 0.82)
• Broadcasters are simultaneously independent and institutionally aligned with power (similarity 0.81)
• Media bias cannot be explained by broadcasters’ personal politics. (similarity 0.81)
• Crisis reveals broadcasting’s hidden symbiosis with power and dominant ideologies more than with profit (similarity 0.78)
• A two-state model cannot explain institutions that are both free and constrained. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Media bias cannot be explained by broadcasters’ personal politics. #responds-to (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 859