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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mosco, Vincent. Political economy of communication. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996 (OCoLC)605375374 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Vincent Mosco |
ISBN: | 0803985606 9780803985605 0803985614 9780803985612 |
OCLC Number: | 35844216 |
Description: | x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- -- pt. I. Mapping the Political Economy of Communication -- 2. What is Political Economy? -- 3. The Political Economy of Communication -- -- pt. II. Rethinking and Renewing the Political Economy of Communication -- 4. Commodification -- 5. Spatialization -- 6. Structuration -- 7. Challenges on the Borders: Cultural Studies and Policy Studies. |
Series Title: | Media, culture, and society series. |
Responsibility: | Vincent Mosco. |
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`The political economy approach to mass media and communications scholarship has been amongst the most productive and inventive fields of work in recent years. Vincent Mosco has performed a heroic and invaluable task in mapping its intellectual and institutional history. But this is more than a masterful synopsis, it is also an original contribution to which students and scholars alike will turn for both reference and stimulus for years to come' - Professor Peter Golding, Loughborough University`Clearly one of the most important books of the decade about the study of communications and where it is going. A volume of encyclopedic scope - it is scholarly and accessible, sympathetic yet honest. Mosco's prodigious work about political economy is not only an unparalleled contribution, it will be one of its pillars' - Professor Thomas Guback, University of Illinois Read more...

