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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... calling it ' the greatest moral challenge of our time ' ( cited in Rusk , 1991 ) . When his colleague Benjamin Friedman ... calls ' Totality ' comes in the midst of a longer argument attacking its misuse by those who refer to singular ...
... calling it ' the greatest moral challenge of our time ' ( cited in Rusk , 1991 ) . When his colleague Benjamin Friedman ... calls ' Totality ' comes in the midst of a longer argument attacking its misuse by those who refer to singular ...
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... calls for allocating babies by establishing a market in what he calls ' parental - right selling . ' According to this view , neoclassical economics is too timid : the fundamental precepts of market behavior and marginal utility can be ...
... calls for allocating babies by establishing a market in what he calls ' parental - right selling . ' According to this view , neoclassical economics is too timid : the fundamental precepts of market behavior and marginal utility can be ...
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... calls for eliminating categories because it rejects the conclusion that they are merely artifacts of a real continuum and insists on specifying real relations among categories and on addressing class formation . The concept of class ...
... calls for eliminating categories because it rejects the conclusion that they are merely artifacts of a real continuum and insists on specifying real relations among categories and on addressing class formation . The concept of class ...
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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