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
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
Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor's Preface xv Acknowledgments
xvi Introduction: The Political Economy of Communications: Core Concerns and
Issues 1 Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, and Helena Sousa Part I Legacies and
Debates 11 1 Political Economies as Moral Economies: Commodities, Gifts, and
Public Goods 13 Graham Murdock 2 The Political Economy of Communication
Revisited 41 Nicholas Garnham 3 Markets in Theory and Markets in Television
62 Eileen R. Meehan and Paul J. Torre 4 Theorizing the Cultural Industries:
Persistent Specificities and Reconsiderations 83 Bernard Miege (translation
by Chloe Salles) 5 Communication Economy Paths: A Latin American Approach
109 Martin Becerra and Guillermo Mastrini Part II Modalities of Power:
Ownership, Advertising, Government 127 6 The Media Amid Enterprises, the
Public, and the State: New Challenges for Research 129 Giuseppe Richeri 7
Media Ownership, Concentration, and Control: The Evolution of Debate 140
John D. H. Downing 8 Maximizing Value: Economic and Cultural Synergies 169
Nathan Vaughan 9 Economy, Ideology, and Advertising 187 Roque Faraone 10
Branding and Culture 206 John Sinclair 11 Liberal Fictions: The Public
Private Dichotomy in Media Policy 226 Andrew Calabrese and Colleen Mihal 12
The Militarization of US Communications 264 Dan Schiller 13 Journalism
Regulation: State Power and Professional Autonomy 283 Helena Sousa and
Joaquim Fidalgo Part III Conditions of Creativity: Industries, Production,
Labor 305 14 The Death of Hollywood: Exaggeration or Reality? 307 Janet
Wasko 15 The Political Economy of the Recorded Music Industry: Redefinitions
and New Trajectories in the Digital Age 331 Andre Sirois and Janet Wasko 16
The Political Economy of Labor 358 Vincent Mosco 17 Toward a Political
Economy of Labor in the Media Industries 381 David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah
Baker Part IV Dynamics of Consumption: Choice, Mobilization, Control 401 18
From the "Work of Consumption" to the "Work of Prosumers": New Scenarios,
Problems, and Risks 403 Giovanni Cesareo 19 The Political Economy of
Audiences 415 Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers 20 The Political Economy
of Personal Information 436 Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. 21 The Political Economy of
Political Ignorance 458 Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock Part V Emerging Issues and
Directions 483 22 Media and Communication Studies Going Global 485 Jan
Ekecrantz 23 New International Debates on Culture, Information, and
Communication 501 Armand Mattelart (translation by Liz Libbrecht) 24 Global
Capitalism, Temporality, and the Political Economy of Communication 521
Wayne Hope 25 Global Media Capital and Local Media Policy 541 Michael
Curtin 26 The Challenge of China: Contribution to a Transcultural Political
Economy of Communication for the Twenty-First Century 558 Yuezhi Zhao Name
Index 583 Subject Index 596
Janet Wasko is Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon (USA). Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy at Loughborough University (UK). Helena Sousa is Professor of Communications Sciences at the University of Minho (Portugal).
