Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire

An exploration of the political economy of media, and to what extent global communications and popular entertainment continue to serve elite interests.

In Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire, an international team of experts analyzes and critiques the political economy of media communications worldwide. Their analysis takes particular account of the sometimes conflicting pressures of globalization and "neo-imperialism." The first is commonly defined as the dismantling of barrier...