{"product_id":"the-political-economies-of-media-the-transformation-of-the-global-media-industries-9781849668934","title":"The Political Economies of Media: The Transformation of the Global Media Industries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.\u003c\/i\u003e  Some advocates and more than a few critics have misconstrued the political economy of media as a unified field of inquiry. The authors from this volume, by contrast, draw from a more diverse stream of the schools of thought signified by this tradition: Neoclassical Economics, Radical Media Political Economy, Schumpeterian Institutional Political Economy, and the Cultural Industries School. The book as a whole is as alert to developments in our main objects of analysis - media institutions, technologies, markets, uses and society - as it is to changes in the world around us, including current trends in communication and media studies.   The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past. Throughout, the impact of the unprecedented wave of media consolidation in the late-1990s and the financial crisis of the past few years loom large. The authors also suggest that there is no 'supra logic' of 'total system integration' that spans the network media, while insisting that one media sector is not the same as the next. Social networking activities often beg, pilfer and borrow 'content' from 'traditional media', but it remains the case that Time Warner, Comcast, the BBC and News Corp. are very different creatures than Apple, Baidu, Facebook or Google. In other words, even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies, as the volume's title - \u003ci\u003eThe Political Economies of Media\u003c\/i\u003e - signals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Economies of Media is the most thoughtful, original and compelling set of essays on contemporary global media industries that I have ever read. Dwayne Winseck and Dal Yong Jin are to be congratulated for shepherding and contributing to this crucial contribution to media studies. It should be mandatory reading for scholars, studentts and concerned citizens * Robert W. McChesny, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *\u003cbr\u003eWinseck and Jin's excellent collection is one of the most important contributions in years to research and teaching in media industries. * David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds *\u003cbr\u003eThis excellent book analyzes how the forces of digitalization, financialization, globalization, and consolidation affect today's media. In a world full of clarion calls, The Political Economies of Media stands out as essential reading: thoughtful interpretations in a well-organized volume, timely and useful information, a wide coverage of industries and countries, a highlighting of the diversity within political economy, and a willingness to question conventional wisdom when warranted by the data. * Eli Noam, Columbia Business School and Columbia Insitute for Tele-Information *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitical Economies of the Media: The Transformation of the Global Media\u003c\/i\u003e is probably one of the most inspiring books in political economy I have read in recent years. A wide variety of topical issues is debated and statements are underpinned by an impressive amount of empirical data... This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the structural mechanisms underlying power and control in the media and information industries. -- Tom Evens, Ghent University * Journal of Digital Television *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures  List of Tables  List of Contributors  Preface  Acknowledgments Part One: Introductory Essay 1  The Political Economies of Media and the Transformation of the Global Media Industries: An Introductory Essay 3 Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University  Part Two: From the Singular to the Plural-Theorizing the Digital and Networked Media Industries in the Twenty-First Century   Principal ongoing mutations of Cultural and Informational Industries  Bernand Miège, Carleton University Media Ownership, Oligarchies, and Globalization: Media Concentration in South America  Guillermo Mastrini and Martín Becerra, University of Buenos Aires  Media as Creative Industries: Conglomeration and Globalization as Accumulation Strategies in an Age of Digital Media  Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology  The Structure and Dynamics of Communications Business Networks in an Era of Convergence: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Business  Amelia Arsenault, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania  Part Three The Conquest of Capital or Creative Gales of Destruction?   Hard Jobs in Hollywood: How Concentration in Distribution Affects the Production Side of the Media Entertainment Industry 123 Susan Christopherson, Cornell University  Financialization and the \"Crisis of the Media\": The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerates in Canada  Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University  Deconvergence and Deconsolidation in the Global Media Industries: The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerate(s)  Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University  Navigational Media: The Political Economy of Online Traffic  Elizabeth Van Couvering, Leicester University  The Contemporary World Wide Web: Social Medium or New Space of Accumulation?  Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University  Part Four Communication, Conventions, and \"Crises\"  Running on empty?: The Uncertain Financial Futures of Public Service Media in the Contemporary Media Policy Environment Peter A. Thompson, University of Wellington  Mediation, Financialization, and the Global Financial Crisis: An Inverted Political Economy Perspective  Aeron Davis, University of London  The Wizards of Oz: Peering Behind the Curtain on the Relationship Between Central Banks and the Business Media  Marc-André Pigeon, Carleton University  References  Suggested Subject Index Terms","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771636842839,"sku":"9781849668934","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781849668934.jpg?v=1758728591","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-political-economies-of-media-the-transformation-of-the-global-media-industries-9781849668934","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}