Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract
A free and fair press is an essential condition for democracy. In many western countries, the media production, distribution, ownership, and funding are dominated by corporations, and therefore governed by the idea of maximizing profits for the investors making freedom and fairness of the press very questionable. There exist, however, a number of political activists who, by writing books and articles, and giving talks, are fighting to free the media from the influence of big corporations. This paper presents a simple cellular automaton model of this struggle.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Computational Theory and Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics