Introduction -- Corporate social responsibility -- critical perspectives -- Social responsibility and the media -- Towards a critical empirical case study of CSR in media and communication industries -- Apple -- dirty computers? -- AT & T -- internet censor? -- Google -- evil spy? -- HP -- hazardous products? -- Microsoft -- knowledge monopoly? -- News corporation -- consciousness industry? -- The Walt Disney Company -- nightmare factory? -- Vivendi -- corporate pirates? -- Social (ir)responsibility in the media and communication system -- The logic of property and the logic of the common in the media system -- Conclusion -- social media as commons based media.