The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and RenewalThis definitive, critical overview of the discipline explains in detail the analytical tools that political economy can apply to today's increasingly global and technological information society. Vincent Mosco defines political economy by its focus on the relationship between the production, distribution and consumption of communication in historical and cultural context. |
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... activity and specifically to the free and creative activity by which people produce and change the world and themselves . The word originates in the ancient Greek , where it typically referred to the political and business activities of ...
... activity and specifically to the free and creative activity by which people produce and change the world and themselves . The word originates in the ancient Greek , where it typically referred to the political and business activities of ...
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... activity with organizational hierarchies that provide , again , less than optimal results . Such imperfections and sub - optimalities lead orthodox economics to reduce non - market or organizational activity by widening the scope of ...
... activity with organizational hierarchies that provide , again , less than optimal results . Such imperfections and sub - optimalities lead orthodox economics to reduce non - market or organizational activity by widening the scope of ...
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... activity also prompt a rethinking of business concentration . Specifi- cally , and contrary to forecasts that telecommunication would necessarily decentralize business activity , the concentration of business activity in New York ...
... activity also prompt a rethinking of business concentration . Specifi- cally , and contrary to forecasts that telecommunication would necessarily decentralize business activity , the concentration of business activity in New York ...
Contents
Mapping the Political Economy of Communication | 17 |
The Political Economy of Communication | 124 |
Rethinking and Renewing the Political Economy | 135 |
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