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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... leading Western powers . As one of the leading figures in the dependency approach now argues , this perspective needs to be modified for the world's poorest peoples ( Cardoso , 1993 ) . The reason for this is that the poorest nations ...
... leading Western powers . As one of the leading figures in the dependency approach now argues , this perspective needs to be modified for the world's poorest peoples ( Cardoso , 1993 ) . The reason for this is that the poorest nations ...
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... leading figures in black Africa to take up the political economy of communication , S.T. Kwame Boafo ( 1991 : 103 ) , describes the present as a seemingly intractable liberation struggle against an inadequate supply of food , water ...
... leading figures in black Africa to take up the political economy of communication , S.T. Kwame Boafo ( 1991 : 103 ) , describes the present as a seemingly intractable liberation struggle against an inadequate supply of food , water ...
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... leading practitioners have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.12 Its success has embold- ened leading proponents , such as Mancur Olson , to call for the development of a unified social science , collapsing all traditional ...
... leading practitioners have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.12 Its success has embold- ened leading proponents , such as Mancur Olson , to call for the development of a unified social science , collapsing all traditional ...
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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