Envisioning Media Power On Capital and Geographies of Television

by Christophers, Brett

• ISBN13: 9780739123454
• ISBN10: 0739123459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-10
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy. It uses theories of political economy as the basis for a comparative empirical examination of the UK and New Zealand television markets, while closely considering these markets' respective relationships with the U.S. market and its globally influential media corporations. In fleshing out this geographical perspective, Brett Christophers critically addresses the power to produce, reproduce, and extract profit from territorialized media markets. To understand such powers, Christophers examines processes of creation and dissemination of industry knowledge, structures of industry governance, and the locational characteristics of television's operational economy.

Author Biography

Brett Christophers is a research fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Reflections on Method	p. 27
Knowing the Television Economy	p. 37
Enframing Creativity	p. 39
Television's Economy and the Power of the Geographical Imagination	p. 61
Knowledge Travels	p. 87
Conclusion to Part I	p. 123
Capitalizing and Circulating Power	p. 125
Power, Scarcity, and a 'Spatial Fix'	p. 127
Television's Local Power Relations	p. 171
Power and Program Pricing in International Markets	p. 201
Circuits of Capital	p. 241
Mirrors, Meters, and Media Power	p. 289
Conclusion to Part II	p. 315
From Space to Place	p. 319
Geopolitics	p. 321
Putting Television in its Place	p. 349
The Political Economy of Place in Programming	p. 377
Conclusion to Part III	p. 407
Coda: Into the Home of Media Power	p. 411
Closing Remarks	p. 425
References	p. 431
Index	p. 457
About the Author	p. 467
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