The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

by Wasko, Janet; Murdock, Graham; Sousa, Helena

• ISBN13: 9781405188807
• ISBN10: 1405188804
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research Written many of the best known authors in the field Includes an international line-up of contributors, drawn from the key markets of North and Latin America, Europe, Australasia, and the Far East

Author Biography

Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon (USA). She is the author of How Hollywood Works (2003), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (2001), and Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (1994), editor of A Companion to Television (Blackwell, 2005) and Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audience Project (2001), as well as other volumes on the political economy of communication and democratic media. She is the current head of the Political Economy Section of the IAMCR.

Graham Murdock is reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University (UK). Before moving to Loughborough, he worked for some years at Leicester University where he was a leading member of the pioneering centre for Mass Communication Research.

Helena Sousa is Associate Professor at the Department of Communications Sciences, University of Minho (Portugal). She has written about Portuguese and EU media policy and about media structures and content production in Portuguese speaking countries (Lusophone cultural area).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Series Editor's Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction: The Political Economy of Communications: Core Concerns and Issues	p. 1
Legacies and Debates	p. 11
Political Economies as Moral Economies: Commodities, Gifts, and Public Goods	p. 13
The Political Economy of Communication Revisited	p. 41
Markets in Theory and Markets in Television	p. 62
Theorizing the Cultural Industries: Persistent Specificities and Reconsiderations	p. 83
Communication Economy Paths: A Latin American Approach	p. 109
Modalities of Power: Ownership, Advertising, Government	p. 127
The Media Amid Enterprises, the Public, and the State: New Challenges for Research	p. 129
Media Ownership, Concentration, and Control: The Evolution of Debate	p. 140
Maximizing Value: Economic and Cultural Synergies	p. 169
Economy, Ideology, and Advertising	p. 187
Branding and Culture	p. 206
Liberal Fictions: The Public-Private Dichotomy in Media Policy	p. 226
The Militarization of US Communications	p. 264
Journalism Regulation: State Power and Professional Autonomy	p. 283
Conditions of Creativity: Industries, Production, Labor	p. 305
The Death of Hollywood: Exaggeration or Reality?	p. 307
The Political Economy of the Recorded Music Industry: Redefinitions and New Trajectories in the Digital Age	p. 331
The Political Economy of Labor	p. 358
Toward a Political Economy of Labor in the Media Industries	p. 381
Dynamics of Consumption: Choice, Mobilization, Control	p. 401
From the "Work of Consumption' to the "Work of Prosumers": New Scenarios, Problems, and Risks	p. 403
The Political Economy of Audiences	p. 415
The Political Economy of Personal Information	p. 436
The Political Economy of Political Ignorance	p. 458
Emerging Issues and Directions	p. 483
Media and Communication Studies Going Global	p. 485
New International Debates on Culture, Information, and Communication	p. 501
Global Capitalism, Temporality, and the Political Economy of Communication	p. 521
Global Media Capital and Local Media Policy	p. 541
The Challenge of China: Contribution to a Transcultural Political Economy of Communication for the Twenty-First Century	p. 558
Name Index	p. 583
Subject Index	p. 596
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