Toward a Political Economy of Culture Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century

by Calabrese, Andrew; Sparks, Colin; Bogdanowicz, Marc; Burgelman, Jean-Claude; Calabrese, Andrew; Collins, Richard; Curran, James; Gandy, Oscar H., Jr.; Golding, Peter; Gourova, Elissaveta; Hanada, Tatsuro; Harvey, Sylvia; Horwitz, Robert; Javary, Michèle;

• ISBN13: 9780742526846
• ISBN10: 0742526844
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics covered include market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, information poverty, and media access. The book also features several new topics for future political economy study. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Part I Taking Stock of the Political Economy of Communication and Culture
Toward a Political Economy of Culture	1	(12)
Andrew Calabrese
The Rise of the Westminster School	13	(28)
James Curran
Making a Molehill out of a Mountain: The Sad State of Political Economy in U.S. Media Studies	41	(24)
Robert McChesney
Part II Capitalism, Communication, and the Public Sphere
``The Marketplace of Ideas'': A History of the Concept	65	(18)
John Durham Peters
Capitalism and Communication: A New Era of Society or the Accentuation of Long-Term Tendencies?	83	(12)
Bernard Miege
Kugai: The Lost Public Sphere in Japanese History	95	(16)
Tatsuro Hanada
Truth Commissions, Nation Building, and International Human Rights: The South African Experience and the Politics of Human Rights Post-9/11	111	(20)
Robert Horwitz
Part III The Political Economy of Film and Broadcasting
Show Me the Money: Challenging Hollywood Economics	131	(20)
Janet Wasko
The Fight for Proportionality in Broadcasting	151	(27)
Richard Collins
Broadcasting and the Market: The Case of Public Television	178	(16)
Giuseppe Richeri
Living with Monsters: Can Broadcasting Regulation Make a Difference?	194	(17)
Sylvia Harvey
Part IV New Media, the Information Society, and Other Obscure Objects
Capitalism's Chernobyl? From Ground Zero to Cyberspace and Back Again	211	(17)
Vincent Mosco
New Media and the Forces of Capitalism	228	(16)
Robin Mansell
Michele Javary
Dismantling the Digital Divide: Rethinking the Dynamics of Participation and Exclusion	244	(17)
Graham Murdock
Peter Golding
Building the Information Society in EU Candidate Countries: A Long Way to Go	261	(25)
Jean-Claude Burgelman
Elissaveta Gourova
Marc Bogdanowicz
Romanticism in Business Culture: The Internet, the 1990s, and the Origins of Irrational Exuberance	286	(21)
Thomas Streeter
The Impact of the Internet on the Existing Media	307	(20)
Colin Sparks
Part V Extending the Boundaries of Political Economy
Audiences on Demand	327	(15)
Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Feminist Theory and the Political Economy of Communication	342	(15)
Ellen Riordan
Index	357	(14)
About the Contributors	371