Toward a Political Economy of Culture
. Ed(S): Calabrese, Andrew; Sparks, Colin
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Description for Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Paperback. This work explores a mix of topics and issues that link to the heritage of political economy work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere. The topics include market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, and information poverty. Editor(s): Calabrese, Andrew; Sparks, Colin. Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 392 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFD; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 poverty, and media access. The book also features new topics for political economy study, including racism in audience research, the value and need for feminist approaches to political economy studies, ... Read more
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 poverty, and media access. The book also features new topics for political economy study, including racism in audience research, the value and need for feminist approaches to political economy studies, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742526846
SKU
V9780742526846
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About . Ed(S): Calabrese, Andrew; Sparks, Colin
Andrew Calabrese is associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Colin Sparks is professor of media studies and director of the Communication and Media Research Institute of the University of Westminster.
Reviews for Toward a Political Economy of Culture
The 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 ... Read more