Toward A Political Economy Of Culture
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, information...
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Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics covered include market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, information poverty, and media access. The book also features several new topics for future political economy study.
Acknowledgments1Toward a Political Economy of Culture12The Rise of the Westminster School133Making a Molehill out of a Mountain: The Sad State of Political Economy in U.S. Media Studies414"The Marketplace of Ideas": A History of the Concept655Capitalism and Communication: A New Era of Society or the Accentuation of Long-Term Tendencies?836Kugai: The Lost Public Sphere in Japanese History957Truth Commissions, Nation Building, and International Human Rights: The South African Experience and the Politics of Human Rights Post-9/111118Show Me the Money: Challenging Hollywood Economics1319The Fight for Proportionality in Broadcasting15110Broadcasting and the Market: The Case of Public Television17811Living with Monsters: Can Broadcasting Regulation Make a Difference?19412Capitalism's Chernobyl? From Ground Zero to Cyberspace and Back Again21113New Media and the Forces of Capitalism22814Dismantling the Digital Divide: Rethinking the Dynamics of Participation and Exclusion24415Building the Information Society in EU Candidate Countries: A Long Way to Go26116Romanticism in Business Culture: The Internet, the 1990s, and the Origins of Irrational Exuberance28617The Impact of the Internet on the Existing Media30718Audiences on Demand32719Feminist Theory and the Political Economy of Communication342Index357About the Contributors371
\ Discourse & SocietyThe authors are to be congratualted for the clarity of their writting . . . Likely to prompt deep reflection and to establish a conceptual framework by which the political economy of communication and culture can be addressed in unison and even more aptly in the future,Toward a Political Economy of Culture should be required reading not only in specialized courses on media, communication, and discourse, but also in more general courses on political economy.\ — Akinbola E. Akinwumi\ \ \ \ \ Political Studies ReviewThis fine collection is fundamental to understanding how culture, markets, and entertainment in general are becoming more and more guided by economic logic and decisions made by just a few corporations. This valuable book should be read by academics and graduate students in political economy, media studies, and sociology of culture and film studies.\ \
