Description: Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still ex...
Brief description: Peter Golding is emeritus professor at Northumbria University, UK, where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor until retirement. He edits the European Journal of Communication, is Hon. President of the European Sociological Association media research network, and Hon Sec. of the UK subject association for university media and cultural studies. He has written or edited about a dozen books and written over a hundred articles on the media, and is currently completing a book on communications and inequality.
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"The authors are to be congratualted for the clarity of their writting . . . Likely to prompt deep reflection and to establish a conceptual framework by which the political economy of communication and culture can be addressed in unison and even more aptly in the future, Toward a Political Economy of Culture should be required reading not only in specialized courses on media, communication, and discourse, but also in more general courses on political economy." --Akinbola E. Akinwumi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Discourse & Society
"This fine collection is fundamental to understanding how culture, markets, and entertainment in general are becoming more and more guided by economic logic and decisions made by just a few corporations. This valuable book should be read by academics and graduate students in political economy, media studies, and sociology of culture and film studies." --Political Studies Review