The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas

The Political Economy of Media is written to demonstrate the incompatibility of the corporate media system with a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking process that brings the system into existence. In this volume, the author brings together the major themes of his two decades of research. Based upon detail, evidence, and arguments, the book is intended to provide a critique of the degradation of journalism, the hyper-commercialisation of culture, the internet, and the emergence of the contemporary media reform movement. It is written for an audience wishing to understand and change media, and the political economy, in the world today.