Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Toward a Political Economy of Culture

Author: Andrew Calabrese

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2003-11-22

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1461700353

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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 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, and the relationship between the discourse of media finance and the behavior of markets.

Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Toward a Political Economy of Culture

Author: Andrew Calabrese

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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In this volume, several influential political economists of communication explore a rich mix of issues that link to the heritage of political economy work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere.

The Political Economy of Information
The Political Economy of Information

Author: Vincent Mosco

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780299115746

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Considers information as an economic good, and examines its effects on political economy as well as on social life and skill needs. Includes case studies of electronic homework in the Federal Republic of Germany and information technologies in the ASEAN countries.

Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth
Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth

Author: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-10-04

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1786608979

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Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities. In the past decade, degrowth has gained momentum and become an umbrella term for various social movements which strive for ecologically sustainable and socially just alternatives that would transform the world we live in. How to move forward in an informed way, without reproducing the existing hierarchies and injustices? How not to end up in a situation when ecological sustainability is the prerogative of the privileged, direct democracy is ignorant of environmental issues, and localisation of production is xenophobic? These are some of the questions that have inspired this edited collection. Bringing degrowth into dialogue with critical social theories, covering previously unexplored geographical contexts and discussing some of the most contested concepts in degrowth, the book hints at informed paths towards socio-ecological transformation.

Towards a Cultural Political Economy
Towards a Cultural Political Economy

Author: Ngai-Ling Sum

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0857930710

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This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can deepen critical s

Towards a New Political Economy of Development
Towards a New Political Economy of Development

Author: G. Strange

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1137277378

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The author examines new development strategies in the context of globalisation and the crisis of the Washington Consensus. Critiquing both protectionism and the free market he points to the influence and evolution of Keynesian ideas for the management and stabilisation of development in an era marked by the unravelling of neoliberal prosperity.

Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015
Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine: Selected Essays 1990-2015

Author: Marko Bojcun

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 3838213688

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The essays in this book explore the major developments, both domestic and international, that shaped the first quarter-century of Ukraine’s independence: the simultaneous construction of a nation-state and the privatization of its economy; a formal democratization of the political process alongside the capture of state institutions by big business oligarchs; their efforts to gain social acceptance at home while maneuvering between competing Russian, EU, and American projects to hegemonize the region; the impact of the financial crises of 1997 and 2008 on Ukrainian society and the national economy’s place in the world market; the growing inequality of society, the mass revolts in 2004 and 2014 against corruption and injustice; and the beginning of Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

The Political Economy of Communication
The Political Economy of Communication

Author: Vincent Mosco

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1996-10-14

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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What is political economy and how can it be applied to the study of media communication? The Political Economy of Communication is the definitive critical overview of the discipline for students of the social sciences. It explains in detail the analytic tools that political economy can apply to today's increasingly global and technological information society. Mosco presents an historical overview of the discipline and defines political economy by its focus on the relation between the production, distribution and consumption of communication in historical and cultural context. This comprehensive analysis of the 'commodity form' is communication includes an examination of print, broadcast and new electronic media, the role and function of the audience, and the problem of social control. It concludes by addressing the relationship of political economy to the increasingly important fields of policy studies and cultural studies.

Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images
Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images

Author: Terry Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781839990007

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Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and private imaginaries, such imagery also operates according to its own logic, potentialities, and limitations. This book explores viral imagery--the iconopolitics--of the pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a "black aesthetic" in white artworlds. Having arrived at the term "iconomy" in the years just prior to 9/11, and tracking its growing relevance since then, Smith argues that its study does not require a discipline serving nation states and globalizing capitalism but, instead, a deconstructive interdiscipline that contributes to the politics of planetary world-making.