scholarly journals Media Activism and the Academy, Three Cases: Media Democracy Day, Open Media, and NewsWatch Canada

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Skinner ◽  
Robert Hackett ◽  
Stuart Poyntz
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Media Democracy ◽  
The University ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Activist Scholarship

In Canada, there is a relatively strong tradition of activist scholarship in media and communication studies. However, very little research has been undertaken on how working in the university may contextualize the ways in which academic workers participate in activist media projects. Focusing on three such projects – Media Democracy Day, Open Media, and NewsWatch Canada – this article draws upon elements of political economy and Bourdieu’s field theory to consider how the different characters of the academic and activist fields work to enable and constrain the abilities of faculty to engage with them.

scholarly journals Professor Janet Wasko: An Interview with the President of the IAMCR and one of the Key Representatives of the Political Economy of Communication Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Jernej Amon Prodnik ◽  
Janet Wasko
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Political Economy Approach

This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), one of the key international associations in the field of media and communication studies. She previously held several other positions in the IAMCR and served as the head of the Political Economy-section, which she also helped to establish. Professor Wasko published several influential books on the film industry, especially on Hollywood and the Disney Corporation. We talked especially about the influences on her approach, about her position in the IAMCR, her understanding of how the cultural and media industries work, the political economy approach in media and communication studies, and issues related to the film industry, which she mostly tackles in her own research.

scholarly journals Professor Janet Wasko: An Interview with the President of the IAMCR and one of the Key Representatives of the Political Economy of Communication Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Jernej Amon Prodnik ◽  
Janet Wasko
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Political Economy Approach

This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), one of the key international associations in the field of media and communication studies. She previously held several other positions in the IAMCR and served as the head of the Political Economy-section, which she also helped to establish. Professor Wasko published several influential books on the film industry, especially on Hollywood and the Disney Corporation. We talked especially about the influences on her approach, about her position in the IAMCR, her understanding of how the cultural and media industries work, the political economy approach in media and communication studies, and issues related to the film industry, which she mostly tackles in her own research.

scholarly journals Communication & Society: A Critical Political Economy Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-405
Author(s):  
Horst Holzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sociology Of Communication ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents the English translation of one of Horst Holzer’s works on communication and society. Holzer elaborates foundations of a critical sociology of communication(s) that studies the relationship of communication and society based on the approach of critical political economy. He shows that such an approach relates communication and production, communication and capitalism; communication, ideology and fetishism; and situates communication in the context of social struggles for alternatives to capitalist social forms. The paper is followed by a postface in which Christian Fuchs contemplates why Holzer’s approach has been largely “forgotten” in the German social sciences and media and communication studies, in turn stressing the continued relevance of Holzer’s theory today.

scholarly journals Critical Media and Communication Studies Today. A Conversation

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs ◽  
Dwayne Winseck
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

This article documents a conversation between us that was first published in parallel on our two blogs http://dwmw.wordpress.com and http://fuchs.uti.at/blog. The conversation deals with our assessments of the status of Critical Media and Communication Studies today. We discuss the work of Dallas Smythe, how to study and assess Google, research dimensions of Critical Political Economy of the Media, how important each of these dimensions should be, the role of ideology critique for Critical Political Economy of the Media, the commonalities and differences between Political Economies of the Media and Critical Political Economy of the Media/Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, the role of Karl Marx for Political Economies of the Media, Nicholas Garnham's recent comments on the field of Critical Political Economy of the Media, neoliberalism and capitalist crisis as contexts for Political Economies of the Media. Comments are very welcome on our blogs, URLs to the specific blog postings can be found in the article sections.

scholarly journals Towards Marxian Internet Studies

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Media And Communication

This article gives an overview of example approaches of Critical Internet Studies and points out key concepts of this field. Critical Cyberculture Studies and Critical Political Economy/Critical Theory of the Internet are identified as two approaches in Critical Internet Studies. The paper also discusses the role of 11 Marxian concepts for Critical Internet Studies. Marxian concepts that have been reflected in Critical Internet Studies include: dialectics, capitalism, commodification, surplus value/exploitation/alienation/class, globalization, ideology, class struggle, commons, public sphere, communism, and aesthetics. The paper points out the importance of explicitly acknowledging the importance of Karl Marx’s thinking in Critical Internet Studies. Marx’s concepts are today frequently used implicitly, without acknowledging and engaging with their roots. A critique of the approach of “Critical” Cyberculture Studies is advanced. This approach is compared to the approaches of Critical Theory and Critical Political Economy of the Internet. The difference between these two approaches reflects the debate about class exploitation and non-class domination between Cultural Studies and Critical Political Economy in Media and Communication Studies.

scholarly journals Communication & Society: A Critical Political Economy Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 357-405
Author(s):  
Horst Holzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Sociology Of Communication ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents the English translation of one of Horst Holzer’s works on communication and society. Holzer elaborates foundations of a critical sociology of communication(s) that studies the relationship of communication and society based on the approach of critical political economy. He shows that such an approach relates communication and production, communication and capitalism; communication, ideology and fetishism; and situates communication in the context of social struggles for alternatives to capitalist social forms. The paper is followed by a postface in which Christian Fuchs contemplates why Holzer’s approach has been largely “forgotten” in the German social sciences and media and communication studies, in turn stressing the continued relevance of Holzer’s theory today.

scholarly journals Capitalisation of the Media Industry From a Political Economy Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-342
Author(s):  
Manfred Knoche
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Mode Of Production

Approaches to the critique of the political economy of communication in society belong to the “forgotten theories” in media and communication studies. But in view of the unmistakable structural change of a media industry “unleashed” by deregulation, privatisation, digitalisation, concentration, globalisation, etc., it seems from an academic perspective necessary to analyse the development of the media industry in close connection with the equally unmistakable general development of an “unleashed” capitalism. This article therefore shows that the analysis of the development processes of capitalism as the undoubtedly globally dominant economic and social system from a political economy perspective makes it possible to analyse, explain, and partly forecast the economisation or commercialisation process in the media industry in an academically appropriate way with regard to its causes, forms, consequences, and further development. Theoretical explanations are offered by the further developments of the analysis and critique of contemporary capitalism based on Marx’s critique of the political economy as a historical-materialist analysis of society. In doing so, the permanent fundamental characteristics, modes of functioning and “regularities” of the capitalist mode of production and the capitalist formation of society are analysed in connection with the particularities of the current capitalisation process in the media industry.

scholarly journals "Is enlightenment just a European idea?" An interview with Daya Thussu.

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-304
Author(s):  
Sašo Slaček Brlek ◽  
Jernej Amon Prodnik
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
News Service ◽  
The Press ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
World Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Media And Communication

Interview with Daya Kishan Thussu, Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster. We discuss his journalistic experience at the Press Trust of India and Gemini News Service, the New World Information and Communication Order and the MacBride report, the rise of BRICS and changes in the sphere of international communications in recent decades, the significance of critical scholarship and the need to internationalize media and communication studies.

scholarly journals Dallas Smythe Today - The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory.

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 692-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Internet Services ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Due to the global capitalist crisis, neoliberalism and the logic of commodification of everything have suffered cracks, fissures and holes. There is a return of the interest in Marx, which requires us to think about the role of Marxism in Media and Communication Studies. This paper contributes to this task by discussing some foundations of contemporary Marxist media and communication studies, including a focus on the renewed interest in Dallas Smythe’s audience commodity category as part of the digital labour debate. Dallas Smythe reminds us of the importance of engagement with Marx’s works for studying the media in capitalism critically. Both Critical Theory and Critical Political Economy of the Media and Communication have been criticized for being one-sided. Such interpretations are mainly based on selective readings. They ignore that in both approaches there has been with different weightings a focus on aspects of media commodification, audiences, ideology and alternatives. Critical Theory and Critical Political Economy are complementary and should be combined in Critical Media and Communication Studies today. Dallas Smythe’s notion of the audience commodity has gained new relevance in the debate about corporate Internet services’ exploitation of digital labour. The exploitation of digital labour involves processes of coercion, alienation and appropriation.

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