{"product_id":"the-political-economy-of-the-media-9781852787776","title":"The Political Economy of the Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Political Economy of the Media\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- The Lecturer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  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","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49413964333399,"sku":"9781852787776","price":608.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-political-economy-of-the-media-9781852787776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}