The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications / Edition 1

by Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, Helena Sousa

Overview

Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates.

• Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research
• Written many of the best known authors in the field
• Includes an international line-up of contributors, drawn from the key markets of North and Latin America, Europe, Australasia, and the Far East

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405188807
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/06/2011
Series:	Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research , #3
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Janet Wasko is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon (USA). She is the author of How Hollywood Works (2003), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (2001), and Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (1994), editor of A Companion to Television (Blackwell, 2005) and Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audience Project (2001), as well as other volumes on the political economy of communication and democratic media. She is the current head of the Political Economy Section of the IAMCR.

Graham Murdock is reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University (UK). Before moving to Loughborough, he worked for some years at Leicester University where he was a leading member of the pioneering centre for Mass Communication Research.

Helena Sousa is Associate Professor at the Department of Communications Sciences, University of Minho (Portugal). She has written about Portuguese and EU media policy and about media structures and content production in Portuguese speaking countries (Lusophone cultural area).

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

Series Editor's Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvi

Introduction: The Political Economy of Communications: Core Concerns and Issues 1
Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, and Helena Sousa

Part I Legacies and Debates 11

1 Political Economies as Moral Economies: Commodities, Gifts, and Public Goods 13
Graham Murdock

2 The Political Economy of Communication Revisited 41
Nicholas Garnham

3 Markets in Theory and Markets in Television 62
Eileen R. Meehan and Paul J. Torre

4 Theorizing the Cultural Industries: Persistent Specificities and Reconsiderations 83
Bernard Miège (translation by Chloé Salles)

5 Communication Economy Paths: A Latin American Approach 109
Martín Becerra and Guillermo Mastrini

Part II Modalities of Power: Ownership, Advertising, Government 127

6 The Media Amid Enterprises, the Public, and the State: New Challenges for Research 129
Giuseppe Richeri

7 Media Ownership, Concentration, and Control: The Evolution of Debate 140
John D. H. Downing

8 Maximizing Value: Economic and Cultural Synergies 169
Nathan Vaughan

9 Economy, Ideology, and Advertising 187
Roque Faraone

10 Branding and Culture 206
John Sinclair

11 Liberal Fictions: The Public–Private Dichotomy in Media Policy 226
Andrew Calabrese and Colleen Mihal

12 The Militarization of US Communications 264
Dan Schiller

13 Journalism Regulation: State Power and Professional Autonomy 283
Helena Sousa and Joaquim Fidalgo

Part III Conditions of Creativity: Industries, Production, Labor 305

14 The Death of Hollywood: Exaggeration or Reality? 307
Janet Wasko

15 The Political Economy of the Recorded Music Industry: Redefinitions and New Trajectories in the Digital Age 331
André Sirois and Janet Wasko

16 The Political Economy of Labor 358
Vincent Mosco

17 Toward a Political Economy of Labor in the Media Industries 381
David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker

Part IV Dynamics of Consumption: Choice, Mobilization, Control 401

18 From the "Work of Consumption" to the "Work of Prosumers": New Scenarios, Problems, and Risks 403
Giovanni Cesareo

19 The Political Economy of Audiences 415
Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers

20 The Political Economy of Personal Information 436
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.

21 The Political Economy of Political Ignorance 458
Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock

Part V Emerging Issues and Directions 483

22 Media and Communication Studies Going Global 485
Jan Ekecrantz

23 New International Debates on Culture, Information, and Communication 501
Armand Mattelart (translation by Liz Libbrecht)

24 Global Capitalism, Temporality, and the Political Economy of Communication 521
Wayne Hope

25 Global Media Capital and Local Media Policy 541
Michael Curtin

26 The Challenge of China: Contribution to a Transcultural Political Economy of Communication for the Twenty-First Century 558
Yuezhi Zhao

Name Index 583

Subject Index 596