• ISBN13: 9781118799444
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: January 1, 2014
• Pages: 632
• Original Price: USD 60.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 953 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Telecommunications, Media Studies, and Communication Studies

From the Back Cover

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 programs 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 in the field.

This contemporary guide to political economics of communication combines authoritative overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research. Including newly commissioned essays by the best-known scholars in the field, this handbook explores and interrogates different approaches and problematics across different political and cultural regions, and offers a theoretical map of the field, both historically and conceptually.

Janet Wasko is Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon (USA).

Graham Murdock is Professor of Culture and Economy at Loughborough University (UK).

Helena Sousa is Professor of Communications Sciences at the University of Minho (Portugal).