Media is at our fingertips. For many of us, it is (1) _____ within seconds, 24 hours a day and seven days a week , in a multitude of (2) _______ and a multitude of (3) _______ . With this constant access to media and information, (4) _______ . And m edia has become essential to (5) _____________________________ . The media industry is a (6) ________ , an engine of the economic and political ruling class. It has become a business creating both pop culture and (7) _____ , as well as forming political opinions and providing (8) __________ . This information has become a (9) _________ . It has brought the world together on a global scale of information exchange - (10) ____________ . This interconnectedness of media and the media industry has become (11) _________ . Some characteristics of globalization through the media industry are (12) __________ between individuals, societies, and nation-states that occurs on a global level, (13) ___________ between and across borders, (14) _____________________ for a rapid transfer of information and knowledge capital. Sounds pretty fantastic. While globalization of the media industry is also characterized by an uneven flow of information within the global system with (15) _______________ , a greater sense of (16) ___________ in the global media industries done by the reduction of (17) __________ . Multimedia outlets are restructured into (18) _________ . These conglomerates are the driving force to (19) ___________ between the media industry and the promotion of (20) ________ .