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The Political Economy of Communication provides a thorough coverage of an important area of communication studies: the political economy approach to media.
This highly successful text has been thoroughly updated, restructured and rewritten in this new edition, clearly demonstrating how power operates across all media, from newspapers to Facebook, and how media power intersects with globalization, social class, race, gender and surveillance.
Key Features; Provides a summary of the field of political economy, looking at its history and major schools of thought; Highlights the work of key figures and differences that established the divide between economics and political economy; Explains the necessity of media students to understand the general political economy tradition and the way in which it informs the political economy of communication; Addresses the interdisciplinary nature of the field, with its links to economics, geography and sociology, and cultural and policy studies
This book offers a unique overview of the field of political economy of communication and will be of use to upper level undergraduate and graduate students of media and communication.
Spatialization: Space, Time, and Communication
Spatialization: Space, Time, and Communication
Commodification is the starting or entry point for the political economy of communication. As such, it opens a field of analysis that includes processes emanating from private and public life which relate to one another and to commodification. This chapter takes up the entry point of spatialization, a term introduced by the social theorist Henri Lefebvre (1979) to denote the process of overcoming the constraints of space and time in social life. Spatialization holds special significance for the political economist of communication because communication is one of the primary means of bringing about spatialization throughout society and, because of this, spatialization makes the communication industries especially significant.
Although there is probably more interest in spatialization now than ...
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