The Political Economy of the Media (The International Library of Studies in Media and Culture series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852787775 ISBN 13: 9781852787776

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

These 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.

About this title

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.’ Author: The Lecturer

From the Author:

Edited by Peter Golding, Northumbria University and Graham Murdock, Reader in the Sociology of Culture, Loughborough University, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1852787775
• ISBN 13: 9781852787776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1424
• Editor: Golding Peter, Murdock Graham