The Political Economy of the Media

by Peter Golding, Graham Murdock

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852787776
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/1997
Series:	International Library of Studies in Medi , #2
Pages:	1424
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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

Editorial Reviews

'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.'

The Lecturer

Golding and Murdock (sociology, Loughborough University, UK) have compiled 61 official documents, otherwise inaccessible articles, and selected extracts published between 1910 and 1994 by seminal thinkers such as Nicholas Garnham, Herbert I. Schiller, Dallas W. Smythe, Francis Williams, Harold Evans, Ben H. Bagdikian, Upton Sinclair, J<:u>rgen Habermas, Edward S. Herman and Peter Jay. 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. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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