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Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communication combines authoritative overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research.
List of contents
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
About the author
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).
Summary
Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communication combines authoritative overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research.
Report
"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
