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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Page 143
... commodity fetishism , according to which the commodity not only congeals social relations and contains the struggle over value , but takes on a life and a power of its own , over that of both its producers and consumers , which , for ...
... commodity fetishism , according to which the commodity not only congeals social relations and contains the struggle over value , but takes on a life and a power of its own , over that of both its producers and consumers , which , for ...
Page 147
... commodity and , by extension , to identify the connections between the commodity status of the content and its meaning . As a result , communication is taken to be a special and particularly powerful commodity because , in addition to ...
... commodity and , by extension , to identify the connections between the commodity status of the content and its meaning . As a result , communication is taken to be a special and particularly powerful commodity because , in addition to ...
Page 151
... commodities in the process of contributing to commodity production . Specifically , they are produced as an important element in the commodifica- tion of television programming and are themselves the central commodity of the ratings ...
... commodities in the process of contributing to commodity production . Specifically , they are produced as an important element in the commodifica- tion of television programming and are themselves the central commodity of the ratings ...
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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