Full Description
This book offers a fresh and accessible introduction to the relationship between media power and cultural production. By marshalling a range of theoretical perspectives from political economy and cultural studies, The Media and Cultural Production invites the reader to analyze the relationship between the making of meaning, political, economic and social power and the machinery of cultural production - the media.The book: critically examines the notion of the `cultural industries'; examines the regulatory framework in which the cultural industries operate; looks at the impact of globalization on cultural production; explores the way in which meaning is both produced and contested.The Media and Cultural Production demonstrates how concepts in communication and cultural studies can be mobilized to analyze cultural production in a range of contexts.
Contents
The Struggle for Power and the Struggle for MeaningSites for Making Meaning IThe Culture IndustrySites for Making Meaning IIThe Regulatory FrameworkSites for Making Meaning IIICommercialization and the `Death of the Public Sphere'Striving for Discursive ClosureThe Struggle for HegemonyMoving to an Informational EconomyThe New Rules of the Power Game in Global Network CapitalismCirculating Meaning IMaking NewsCirculating Meaning IIThe Public Relations-izing of WarCirculating Meaning IIIMaking Sense of Distant PlacesThe Limits of PowerResisting Dominant Meanings
