Handbook of Political Economy

Herausgegeben von Wasko, Janet; Murdock, Graham; Sousa, Helena

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1074g
• ISBN-13: 9781118799444
• ISBN-10: 1118799445
• Artikelnr.: 40134275

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Miège (translation
by Chloé Salles) 5 Communication Economy Paths: A Latin American Approach
109 Martín 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 André 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

Rezensionen

"Political economy has roared back into town. Terms like 'net neutrality,' 'creative labor,' 'the precariat,' and 'global capital' are in every critic's vocabulary--or should be. This Handbook's editors, all leading figures, have assembled an equally distinguished group of authors to lead the charge."
- Toby Miller, author of Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention

"This is an excellent book that moves from heritage sites to new destinations, and from the old standards to innovative research."
- James Curran, Director, Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre, University of London

"The power of the communications media to shape people's cultural, political and social lives is immense. We should never lose sight of the bases to their political and economic potency, and the political economy of communications is a crucial intellectual tradition in both analysing the media, and in giving sound critical foundations to challenge and intervention. In this important collection the editors have brought together an authoritative and diverse collection of original essays that reaffirm the importance of this tradition and make an irreplaceable contribution to it."
- Peter Golding, Northumbria University

"This is not only a welcome package of scholarship but also a timely reminder of the vitality of critical political economy, serving to keep the research tradition straight and wide under pressures of marketization and globalization."
- Kaarle Nordenstreng, Tampere University