Description
Book SynopsisThese two volumes bring together key readings in the political economy of the mass media and analyse and explain the role of the media in modern society. Covering a wide spectrum of articles on media and communications over a broad period of time, the collection includes discussion on the political economy approach to communications, the capitalist enterprise and creation of communications, ideology, and protecting the common good in the management and regulation of communications and the media.
The Political Economy of the Media includes official documents, otherwise accessible articles as well as carefully selected extracts from key commentators and seminal thinkers in the field, including among others, Nicholas Garnham, Herbert I. Schiller, Dallas W. Smythe, Francis Williams, Harold Evans, Ben H. Bagdikian, Upton Sinclair, Jurgen Habermas, Edward S. Herman and Peter Jay.
Trade Review'I personally applaud their attempts to embed an anthology within a series of critical and pedagogic stages which prepare students for how to engage with, or at least talk about, the pieces.' -- The Lecturer
Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Defining Political Economy Part II: Communications, Ideology and Capitalism Part III: Communication and the Global Order Part IV: Communications and Capital Enterprise Name Index • Volume II: Acknowledgements Part I: Private Interest to Common Goods Part II: Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest Part III: Policing the Public Interest Part IV: Institutionalising Diversity Name Index
