The political economy of the media

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The political economy of the media

edited by Peter Golding and Graham Murdock

(International library of studies in media and culture, 2)(An Elgar reference collection)

Edward Elgar, c1997

  • : set
  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Contents: 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

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Details

  • NCID
    BA30245769
  • ISBN
    • 1852787775
  • LCCN
    96035918
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cheltenham, U.K. ; Brookfield, Vt.
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    25 cm
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