Political economy of media industries : global transformations and challenges /

"Building on Janet Wasko's political economy of communication research, contributors examine prevalent themes in the study of media work and industries--labor, power, money--by discussing their relevance to new media platforms, to the crisis economy, and to the rise of non-Western economie...

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Other Authors: Nichols, Randy (Randall James) (Editor), Martínez, Gabriela, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge studies in media and cultural industries ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Hollywood trilogy, the Disney duo / Eileen R. Meehan
  • Movie theaters and money : integration and consolidation in film exhibition / Ben Birkinbine
  • How Hollywood workers unite : labor convergence and the creation of SAG-AFTRA / Catherine McKercher and Vincent Mosco
  • Mexican film industry, 2000-2018 : resurgence or assimilation? / Rodrigo Gomez
  • The new holy grail : prime time television and state production incentive in the United States / William M. Kunz
  • Old strategies in the new paradigm : web series and corporate control / Mary P. Erickson
  • State monopoly of telecommunications in Ethiopia : revisiting natural monopoly in the era of deregulation / Téwodros W. Workneh and H. Leslie Steeves
  • Through being cool : iTunes and the political economy of music retail / David Gracon
  • In practice and theory? : a review of scholarship on Wikipedia's political economy / Randall Livingstone
  • Bribe and journalism / Jörg Becker
  • Labor in the age of digital (re)production / Gerald Sussman
  • Power under pressure : digital capitalism in crisis / Dan Schiller
  • Minutes to midnight : capitalist communication and climate catastrophe / Graham Murdock
  • Time, ecology, and commodity fetishism / Wayne Hope.