European Media Markets in the 1990s

The article develops a theoretical framework for the critical examination of cinematic tourist design. Considering ‘film-induced tourism’ as part of a bigger system involving the design of mobilities, it interrogates the connection between the aesthetic and ethical principles that end up informing the engineering of national hospitality in media platforms. The design, which is managed by a ‘worldmaking authority’ or network encompassing the host nation state and international tourist and media markets, conforms to the rationalised rules of what Boltanski and Chiapello termed the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, which mobilises romantic ideals of individual freedom to sell landscapes and exotic cultural characters. The phased development of such mobilities conforms to contingency and is indifferent to the welfare of particular social groups. The model is exemplified through the phased design of mobilities out of two films with virulent sexist and antisemitic content centred on the journeys of the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat to the United States.

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THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE REGULATION OF MEDIA MARKETS - by Alison Harcourt

Public Administration ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00656_5.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 85 (2) ◽

pp. 551-553

Author(s):

Mark Thatcher

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

The European Union ◽

Media Markets

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The Long-Term and Geographically Constrained Effects of Campaign Advertising on Political Polarization and Sorting

American Politics Research ◽

10.1177/1532673x17721479 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 3-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Travis N. Ridout ◽

Erika Franklin Fowler ◽

Michael M. Franz ◽

Kenneth Goldstein

Keyword(s):

Political Advertising ◽

Political Polarization ◽

Political Elites ◽

The Past ◽

Mass Public ◽

Dependent Variables ◽

Media Markets ◽

The Impact ◽

Campaign Advertising

Scholars agree that there has been an increase in polarization among political elites, though there continues to be debate on the extent to which polarization exists among the mass public. Still, there is general agreement that the American public has become more sorted over the past two decades, a time during which political ad volumes have increased and ads have become more negative. In this research, we explore whether there is a link between the two. We take advantage of variation in the volume and tone of political advertising across media markets to examine the link between advertising and three dependent variables: issue polarization, affective polarization, and sorting. We focus on the impact of both recent ad exposure and cumulative ad exposure across several election cycles. Ultimately, we find little impact of advertising on polarization or sorting, both overall and among subgroups of the population.

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The Battle of YouTube, TV and Netflix – An Empirical Analysis of Competition in Audio-visual Media Markets

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3569553 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oliver Budzinski ◽

Sophia Gaenssle ◽

Nadine Lindstädt

Keyword(s):

Empirical Analysis ◽

Visual Media ◽

Media Markets

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Continental shifts: capitalism, communications and change in Europe

Comunicação e Sociedade ◽

10.17231/comsoc.7(2005).1207 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 11-23

Author(s):

Graham Murdock

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Cultural Production ◽

Critical Approach ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Classic Approach ◽

Media Markets ◽

The Media ◽

Distribution Of Power

This article puts forward the fundamental lines of thought on the Political Economy of Communications and the Media, since the development of capitalism up to the present day. Clarifying the distinction between Economy and Political Economy, this work examines the central split between two traditions within Political Economy: the Classic approach which is centred on markets and competition mechanisms and the Critical approach which is centred on the analysis of property and the distribution of power in society. Despite internal distinct traditions, for political economists’ questions about cultural production and consumption are never simply matters of economic organisation or creative expression and the relations between them. They are always also questions about the organisation of power and its consequences for the constitution of public life. Based on different Political Economy perspectives, this article attempts to present the most recent developments on communications and media markets in Europe and the major challenges and opportunities the discipline faces in a time marked by the emergence of a digital public sphere.

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