The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and RenewalWhat is political economy and how can it be applied to the study of media communication? The Political Economy of Communication is the definitive critical overview of the discipline for students of the social sciences. It explains in detail the analytic tools that political economy can apply to today's increasingly global and technological information society. Mosco presents an historical overview of the discipline and defines political economy by its focus on the relation between the production, distribution and consumption of communication in historical and cultural context. This comprehensive analysis of the 'commodity form' is communication includes an examination of print, broadcast and new electronic media, the role and function of the audience, and the problem of social control. It concludes by addressing the relationship of political economy to the increasingly important fields of policy studies and cultural studies. |
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... fundamental transformation , a remapping of capitalism , brought about by fundamental shifts in the space of flows of fundamental labor and capital resources ( Castells , 1989 ) ? Or is this just the latest way of thinking about ...
... fundamental transformation , a remapping of capitalism , brought about by fundamental shifts in the space of flows of fundamental labor and capital resources ( Castells , 1989 ) ? Or is this just the latest way of thinking about ...
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... fundamental characteristics of the perspective . Finally , rethinking means directly address- ing streams of thought that depart in some degree or fundamentally from the political economic approach . One does this not to dress up an old ...
... fundamental characteristics of the perspective . Finally , rethinking means directly address- ing streams of thought that depart in some degree or fundamentally from the political economic approach . One does this not to dress up an old ...
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... fundamental dimen- sions of the argument . First , whether framed in the modernist discourse of universal contamination or the triumphalism of post - structuralist thought , the argument for the emergence of commodification suggests one ...
... fundamental dimen- sions of the argument . First , whether framed in the modernist discourse of universal contamination or the triumphalism of post - structuralist thought , the argument for the emergence of commodification suggests one ...
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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