The political economies of media : : the transformation of the global media industries / / edited by Dwayne Winseck, Dal Yong Jin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jin, Dal Yong, 1964-; Winseck, Dwayne Roy, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : Bloomsbury Academic,, [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Some advocates and more than a few critics have misconstrued the political economy of media as a unified field of inquiry. The authors from this volume, by contrast, draw from a more diverse stream of the schools of thought signified by this tradition: Neoclassical Economics, Radical Media Political Economy, Schumpeterian Institutional Political Economy, and the Cultural Industries School. The book as a whole is as alert to developments in our main objects of analysis - media institutions, technologies, markets, uses and society - as it is to changes in the world around us, including current t

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Introductory Essay; The Political Economies of Media and the Transformation of the Global Media Industries; Setting the scene: baseline considerations; Big sweeping trends, critical details, and political economies of the media; Which media political economy?; Neoclassical political economy; Radical media political economies: the monopoly capital and digital capitalism schools

Creative destruction: Schumpeterian institutional political economy, the creative industries school, and network political economyMutations: the cultural industries school; ""All that is solid melts into air"" (Karl Marx): the global transformation of the network media industries; Some closing thoughts; Notes; Part Two: From the Singular to the Plural: Theorizing the Digital and Networked Media Industries in the Twenty-First Century; 1 Principal Ongoing Mutations of Cultural and Informational Industries

The ""mutations of cultural, informational, and communications industries"" research programFive major trends and trajectories in the development in the CICIs; Mutation 1: the current globalization of, and expansion in, market consumption (of culture and information); Mutation 2: the increasing dominance of communications industries over content industries; Mutation 3: the power of ICTs (digital) over cultural and informational practices; Mutation 4: maintenance of content industries but emergence of common interindustry characteristics

Mutation 5: difficulties and growing pressures faced by social agents, producers, and in particular, artists and intellectuals within the various branches of the cultural and informational industriesThree decisive questions and one new orientation in perspective; Conclusion; Notes; 2 Media Ownership, Oligarchies, and Globalization: Media Concentration in South America; Introduction; Approaches to media concentration; The issue of diversity; Measurement techniques; The media in the Southern Cone; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Uruguay; Concentration in the Southern Cone today; Concluding comments

Notes3 Media as Creative Industries: Conglomeration and Globalization as Accumulation Strategies in an Age of Digital Media; Introduction: which media economics?; The curse of bigness: monopoly, competition, and the media; Conglomeration as a media corporate strategy; Does conglomeration work?; Globalization of media corporations: myths and legends; Conclusion; 4 The Structure and Dynamics of Communications Business Networks in an Era of Convergence: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Business; Communications networks in an era of convergence

The core of the global network of communications networks