Book description
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-date
and accessible overview of key areas and debates.
- Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and
the best of contemporary theorization and research
- Written many of the best known authors in the field
- Includes an international line-up of contributors, drawn from the
key markets of North and Latin America, Europe, Australasia, and the
Far East
Janet Wasko
is the Knight Chair for Communication Research at the University of
Oregon (USA). She is the author of
How Hollywood Works
(2003),
Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy
(2001), and
Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen
(1994), editor of
A Companion to Television
(Blackwell, 2005) and
Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audience Project
(2001), as well as other volumes on the political economy of
communication and democratic media. She is the current head of the
Political Economy Section of the IAMCR.
Graham Murdock is reader in the Sociology of Culture at
Loughborough University (UK). Before moving to Loughborough, he worked
for some years at Leicester University where he was a leading member
of the pioneering centre for Mass Communication Research.
Helena Sousa is Associate Professor at the Department of
Communications Sciences, University of Minho (Portugal). She has
written about Portuguese and EU media policy and about media
structures and content production in Portuguese speaking countries
(Lusophone cultural area).
