Envisioning media power : on capital and geographies of television
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Envisioning media power : on capital and geographies of television
Lexington Books, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-455) and index
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Description
Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy. It uses theories of political economy as the basis for a comparative empirical examination of the UK and New Zealand television markets, while closely considering these markets' respective relationships with the US market and its globally-influential media corporations. In fleshing out this geographical perspective, the book critically addresses the power to produce, reproduce, and extract profit from territorialized media markets. To understand such powers, the book examines processes of creation and dissemination of industry knowledge, structures of industry governance, and the locational characteristics of television's operational economy. Through its rigorous and creative combination of conceptual insights with empirical substance, Envisioning Media Power both illuminates the fabric of television's international space economy, and ultimately offers a unique theoretic argument - suggesting that power, knowledge and geography are inseparable not only from one another, but from the process of accumulation of media capital.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Reflections on Method Part 3 Part I: Knowing the Television Economy Chapter 4 1. Enframing Creativity Chapter 5 2. Television's Economy and the Power of the Geographical Imagination Chapter 6 3. Knowledge Travels Chapter 7 Conclusion to Part I Part 8 Part II: Capitalizing and Circulating Power Chapter 9 4. Power, Scarcity, and a "Spatial Fix" Chapter 10 5. Television's Local Power Relations Chapter 11 6. Power and Program Pricing in International Markets Chapter 12 7. Circuits of Capital Chapter 13 8. Mirrors, Meters, and Media Power Chapter 14 Conclusion to Part II Part 15 Part III: From Space to Place Chapter 16 9. Geopolitics Chapter 17 10. Putting Television in Its Place Chapter 18 11. The Political Economy of Place in Programming Chapter 19 Conclusion to Part III Chapter 20 Coda: Into the Home of Media Power Chapter 21 Closing Remarks
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