Political Economy of the Media

Abstract

Political economy is the study of the social relations, particularly the power relations, that mutually constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, including communication resources → Media Economics). This formulation has a certain practical value because it calls attention to how the communication business operates, for example, how communications products move through a chain of producers such as a → Hollywood film studio, to wholesalers, retailers, and, finally, consumers, whose purchases, downloads, and attention are fed back into new processes of production.

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