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MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry explores evolving definitions of media and interrogates how media technologies are transforming media theory and practice. The collection addresses the emerging roles of media across a wide range of disciplines, featuring contributions from an array of internationally known scholars and practitioners. The definiti...
This article celebrates the anniversary of Javost—The Public by briefly noting the continuing growth and contribution of the critical study of political economies of media and communication. The discussion includes some of the variations and critiques, of this approach, as well as current trends and directions. The main argument is that critical ap...
Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News Corp., The Microsoft Corporation) in terms of revenu...
Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production with profit as its main goal. Economic systems have influences on political communication, including the political support of the economy and media systems, which influence elections. These relationships are analyzed here within the study of political communicati...
This article considers several questions pertaining to the current state of journalism. The discussion explores the meaning of journalism and journalists, as well as considering the role of journalists in an increasingly digital environment. The article concludes by exploring journalism in the future and why this all matters. A major theme of this...
This essay reviews some of the early work on the study of media industries, emphasizing the historic precedents for media industry studies that more recent research sometimes neglects or even forgets. It briefly identifies some classic studies that should providefoundations for current research. While new developments in media industries are contin...
This discussion presents a brief overview of the establishment and expansion of the study of the political economy of media and communications, followed by attention to some of current directions of this approach. Themes and concepts developed by political economists of the media are
reviewed, as well as internal and external critiques of the appro...
This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the Int...
This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the Int...
This essay addresses recent misrepresentations of the study of political economy of the media. The discussion is grounded in some historical background, including a brief sketch of some of the history of critical communications research in the US, which flourished within the global profusion of critical research in the 1960s and 1970s. Part of this...
The study of media industries may be relatively new to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), but focus on this area has a long history and, in the United States, has included research on the interconnected industries of telephony, radio, film, journalism, and television. Much of this work can be divided into two perspectives: the first c...
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Studying the political economy of communications is no longer a marginal approach in media/communication studies in North America and some parts of Europe. Increasingly, the study of political economy is crucial to understanding the growth and global expansion of media and information industries. Thus, more researchers have turned to this p...
This essay introduces the special issue based on What is Television? A Conference Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Television.
IntroductionThe Study of the Recorded Music IndustryThe History of the Recorded Music IndustryConclusion
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What's Changing About Hollywood?What's Not Changing: Hollywood and ContinuityThe Future?References
Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-dat...
The Internet has been praised for offering an unlimited means of accessing and sharing information, as well as new forms of entertainment and diversion. While a good deal of attention has been directed at adult role-playing games (such as World of Warcraft), social networks (such as MySpace and Facebook), and virtual communities (such as Second Lif...
THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY 200: 1983 EDITION—AMERICA'S TWO HUNDRED LARGEST MEDIA AND INFORMATION COMPANIES (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983---price not given, paper; with hardback edition available from Gale Research Co., Detroit---$98.00)
Este artigo tem como base estudos recentes a respeito da Walt Disney Company que utilizaram uma variedade de estratégias teóricas e metodológicas para questionar alguns mitos que rodeiam esta companhia, seus produtos e seu criador, Walt Disney. A discussão considera cinco premissas que são tipicamente feitas sobre a Disney: 1. Walt Disney era um gê...
During the 1970s and 1980s, the debate about media imperialism erupted in the field of communication studies. A good deal of critique and discussion followed during the next few decades, as academics continued to debate the feasibility of the concept. Meanwhile, global media expanded and changed in various ways. Is media imperialism still a viable...
Defining the Tradition: Classical Political EconomyPolitical Economy Applied to CommunicationPolitical Economy and Media EconomicsThe Study of the Economics of FilmPolitical Economy of Film
A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century. Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely future. Covers technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, te...
Este artículo parte de la base de que el cine es una forma de comunicación mediada, por lo que se le puede aplicar muchos de los análisis utilizados en estudiar otros medios. Primero, se presenta un breve análisis de la Economía Política de la Comunicación, sus principios teóricos y sus diferencias con la escuela de los media economics. luego, se...
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This contribution, written by three leading North American representatives of political economy of communica tion, was published in a complex and conflict-laden context, when this research tradition (again) had to provide a solid grounding for its continuing existence and relevance. Attacks on the approach have emerged both from wi...
This is a book about the US motion picture industry - its structure and policies, its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that are involved in turning raw materials and labor into feature films. It describes the process of film production, distribution, exhibition and retail - a process that involves different markets where material...
The article draws on recent studies of the Walt Disney Company that have used a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to challenge some of the myths that surround the company, its products, and its creator, Walt Disney. The discussion considers five assumptions that are typically made about Disney: (1) Walt Disney was a creative geni...
Discussions of the New Economy generally point to media and communication as the dynamic industries that are at the eye of the free market hurricane. The creation of ideas and images, we are told, has overtaken the production of things. The culture of consumer choice that commercial media offer, it is said, provides the basis for free societies and...
This article describes cable systems in the United States and the ongoing processes of commercialization and concentration, as well as accompanying critical trends in technological development. Current policy issues are covered as a background to our discussion of issues relating to the nature of public communication in the U.S. The principle issue...
This article discusses the global strength and strategies of the U.S. entertainment business—“Hollywood”—in light of new technological developments, and in relation to major political and economic changes in the European market. It argues that Hollywood already dominates European film and television markets. Given the development and proliferation...
THE CRITICAL COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW, VOLUME CHANGING PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATIONS CONTROL, edited by Vincent Mosco and Janet Wasko (Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1984—$37.50 to institutions, $24.50 to individuals)./
Este artigo tem como base estudos recentes a respeito da Walt Disney Company que utilizaram uma variedade de estratégias teóricas e metodológicas para questionar alguns mitos que rodeiam esta companhia, seus produtos e seu criador, Walt Disney. A discussão considera cinco premissas que são tipicamente feitas sobre a Disney: 1. Walt Disney era um gê...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-315). Microfiche. s
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A transdisciplinary view of "life." Disciplines and fields include architecture, art, astrobiology, bioengineering, biology, chemistry, cinema studies, cybernetics, communication, computer and information sciences, design, ecology, ecomedia, electrical engineering, environmental studies and sciences, garden curation, geography, journalism, materials science, media archaeology and ecology, media studies, metamedia, philosophy, physics, political economy, sociology, system dynamics (incl. machine learning), systems and synthetic biology.
A transdisciplinary view of "media." Disciplines and fields include: anthropology, art, communication, computer science, cultural studies, design, film+television, history, information science, journalism, media studies, political economy, science, technology & society (sts), sociology, and transtechnology research.
