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The first book dedicated specifically to research methods in the political economy of media and communication, it provides a methodological toolkit to investigate the functioning of media, technology, and cultural industries in their historical, institutional, structural, and systemic contexts.Featuring contributions from across the globe and a variety of methodological perspectives, this volume presents the state of the art in political economy of media and communication methods, articulating those methods with adjacent approaches, to study concentration of ownership and power, pluralism and diversity, regulation and public policies, governance, genderization, and sustainability. This collection charts the methodological innovations critical political economists are adopting to analyse a rapidly transforming digital media landscape, exploring ideology, narratives, socio-analysis and praxis in communication with ethnographic and participatory approaches, as well as designs for quantitative and qualitative methods of textual, discourse and content analysis, network analyses, which consider power relations affecting communication, including intersectional oppressions and the new developments taking place in artificial intelligence.An essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in the areas of media, cultural and communication studies, particularly those studying topics such as the political economy of media and/or communication, media and communication theory, and research methods.

Le projet Matérialismes, culture et communication a pour objectif de mettre en cycle et en concordance des savoirs critiques matérialistes traitant de la culture et de la communication. Ce projet encyclopédique se déploie, à ce jour, sur trois volumes (tome 1 : Marxismes, Théorie et sociologie critiques ; tome 2 : Cultural Studies, théories féministes et décoloniales). Le présent tome rend hommage aux chercheurs inscrivant leurs travaux dans le champ de l'économie politique. La critique des médias et de la communication a longtemps été éludée par les économistes se réclamant du marxisme. Il faut attendre les années 1970 pour que naisse une'économie politique de la communication'digne de ce nom. Pendant longtemps dominé par des contributions nord-américaines ou européennes - et principalement anglo-saxonnes -, ce courant de recherche est souvent décrit, par trop rapidement, comme une approche unifiée du sous-champ interne des études de communication duquel, par ailleurs, bien peu d'ouvrages en français ont proposé l'exégèse.Le présent ouvrage entend à la fois pallier ce manque et ouvrir, par là-même, à la richesse de quelques travaux majeurs se réclamant dudit courant ou de régions épistémologiques proches. Ont participé à cet ouvrage : Maria Alcala Sucre, Verlane Aragão, Robert Babe, Alix Bénistant, David Buxton, Fabien Granjon, Jacques Guyot, Jonathan Hardy, Mariem Hazmoune, Christophe Magis, Guillermo Mastrini, Jacob Matthews, Alan Ouakrat, Maxime Ouellet, Ruy Sardinha Lopes, Maria Trinidad Garcia, Jérémy Vachet, Carlo Vercellone et Mariano Zarowsky.

Handelsstreit, Atomkonflikt oder Klimastreik – Krisen prägen derzeit die Welt. Doch auch hierzulande bestimmen Krisen den Alltag. Nicht zuletzt auch, weil die mediale Aufmerksamkeit und damit die Reichweite oft genug steigt. Durch Fehler in der eigenen Kommunikation entstehen Unternehmen, Personen oder Organisationen in entsprechend angespannten Zeiten erhebliche wirtschaftliche Schäden – insbesondere durch den Verlust von Glaubwürdigkeit und Vertrauen. Doch welche Strategien wählen betroffene Institutionen? In jedem Fall erfordert es in der heutigen Zeit einen professionellen Umgang mit Krisen, um größeren Schaden für alle Beteiligten abzuwenden. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, das wichtige kommunikationswissenschaftliche Themenfeld Krise durch die Analyse verschiedener prominenter, gesellschaftlich relvanter Fälle aufzuarbeiten, mediale Mechanismen aufzudecken und neue Erkenntnisse für den Umgang mit Krisen zu liefern. Unter anderem werden die weltweite Finanzkrise, die Krise im deutschen Fußball rund um den Fall Özil/Gündoğan und den DFB, der Fall Böhmermann, Angela Merkel und die Flüchtlingskrise oder der Fall Relotius beim SPIEGEL beleuchtet. Für eine einheitliche Struktur der elf Beiträge erfolgt zunächst die objektive Schilderung der jeweiligen Krisensituation samt Strategie und Taktik. Die Wahrnehmung des Falls durch die Medien und Öffentlichkeit schließen sich daran an. Danach ordnen die jeweiligen Experten die Krisenkommunikation ein und erläutern jeweils gelungene und weniger gelungene Aspekte. Das Besondere: Jeder Fall wird durch eine Stellungnahme des betroffenen Unternehmens, beteiligter Personen oder Organisationen ergänzt. So kommen unter anderem Oliver Bierhoff (Direktor Deutscher Fußball-Bund), Dr. Kai Gniffke (Chefredakteur ARD-aktuell), Steffen Klusmann (Chefredakteur SPIEGEL) und Steffen Seibert (Regierungssprecher von Kanzlerin Angela Merkel) zu Wort.

This handbook combines the perspectives of communication studies, economics and management, and psychology in order to provide a comprehensive economic view on personal and mass communication.It is divided into six parts that comprise: 1. an overarching introduction that defines the field and provides a brief overview of its history (1 chapter)2. the most commonly used theoretic frameworks for the analysis of communication economics and management (4 chapters)3. the peculiarities of the quantitative and qualitative methods and data used in the field (3 chapters)4. key issues of the field such as the economics of language, labor in creative industries, media concentration, branding etc. (10 chapters)5. descriptions of the development, trends and peculiarities of the field in different parts of the world, written by scholars from the respective region (10 chapters)6. reflections on future directions for the field, both from a managerial and from an economics perspective (1 chapter). The authors of the individual chapters represent different academic disciplines, research traditions, and geographic backgrounds. The reader will thus gain multifaceted insights into the management and economics of communication.

This book introduces social manufacturing, the next generation manufacturing paradigm that covers product life cycle activities that deal with Internet-based organizational and interactive mechanisms under the context of socio-technical systems in the fields of industrial and production engineering. Like its subject, the book's approach is multi-disciplinary, including manufacturing systems, operations management, computational social sciences and information systems applications. It reports on the latest research findings regarding the social manufacturing paradigm, the architecture, configuration and execution of social manufacturing systems and more. Further, it describes the individual technologies enabled by social manufacturing for each topic, supported by case studies. The technologies discussed include manufacturing resource minimalization and their socialized reorganizations, blockchain models in cybersecurity, computing and decision-making, social business relationships and organizational networks, open product design, social sensors and extended cyber-physical systems, and social factory and inter-connections. This book helps engineers and managers in industry to practice social manufacturing, as well as offering a systematic reference resource for researchers in manufacturing. Students also benefit from the detailed discussions of the latest research and technologies that will have been put into practice by the time they graduate.

The development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has transformed the world over the last two decades. These technologies are often seen as being inherently'good', with the ability to make the world better, and in particular to reduce poverty. However, their darker side is frequently ignored in such accounts. ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural development and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, all too often, projects designed to do so fail to go to scale, and are unsustainable when donor funding ceases. Indeed, ICTs have actually dramatically increased inequality across the world. The central purpose of this book is to account for why this is so, and it does so primarily by laying bare the interests that have underlain the dramatic expansion of ICTs in recent years. Unless these are fully understood, it will not be possible to reclaim the use of these technologies to empower the world's poorest and most marginalised.

Dieser Sammelband legt dar, wie sich Moral im Internet darstellt und welche Funktionen sie dort haben kann. Die Autoren skizzieren eine Internet-Ethik vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden Spaltung zwischen einer digitalen Elite einerseits (etwa Facebook, Apple und Google) und einem datafizierten Proletariat andererseits. Sie erörtern die Entstehung ethischen Bewusstseins im Face-to-Interface, die Unverzichtbarkeit eines aufgeklärt-kritischen Users, soziale Medienkompetenz als Bildungsauftrag und regen einen Gesellschaftsvertrag für die Netzwerkgesellschaft an. Dieser Band fasst die Tagung „Face-to-Interface“ zusammen, die 2016 von der accadis Hochschule und dem Ethikverband der deutschen Wirtschaft e.V. veranstaltet wurde.

Mit einem diskurslinguistischen Ansatz analysiert Daniela Glausch die Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation von Unternehmen im deutsch-italienischen Vergleich. Sie widmet sich damit einem relevanten Sprachenpaar, vertieft das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in der Linguistik und stärkt das Untersuchungsgebiet Wirtschaftssprache in der Romanistik. Im Fokus stehen aktuelle Diskurstraditionen in Bezug auf die Selbstdarstellung der Unternehmen, ihren Umgang mit Anspruchsgruppen sowie ihr Nachhaltigkeitsverständnis. Die sprachlichen Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zeigen das Zusammenspiel global-normierender und kulturspezifischer Einflüsse auf die Kommunikation.

En los análisis de la sociedad digital son escasos los análisis centrados en temas materiales, sociales y de poder sobre los que se asientan los valores, los contenidos y los discursos que encontramos en el mundo digital. Para abordarlo debemos tener en cuenta la dualidad del propio sistema comunicativo: por una parte es un mecanismo de reproducción sistémico y por otro lado es un espacio donde se contrastan las hegemonías. Para ello, el libro se organiza desde las esferas sociales que dan sentido al hecho cultural y comunicativo. Se comienza por la Noosfera analizando el capitalismo cognitivo, la Mediasfera y la Ciberesfera. En la Sociosfera se hurga en el paradigma de la diversidad. En la Econosfera se analizan las empresas culturales en la era posfordista. En la Geosfera se comparan las novedosas políticas comunicativas de América Latina. En la Cratosfera o esfera del poder, se interroga sobre la democracia de nuestro tiempo y la inadaptación de las políticas culturales. El libro termina con propuestas en positivo y detalladas de empo-deramiento social y de políticas culturales y comunicativas para este inicio de la era digital.

This book diagnoses the social, mental and political consequences of working and economic organizations that generate value from communication. It calls for the role of communication technologies to be reimagined in order to create a healthier, fairer society.

Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research Written many of the best known authors in the field Includes an international line-up of contributors, drawn from the key markets of North and Latin America, Europe, Australasia, and the Far East

Media, Structures, and Power is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada's leading communication and media studies scholar, Robert E. Babe. Spanning almost four decades of scholarship, the volume reflects the breadth of Babe's work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy.Babe famously characterized Canadian scholars'distinctive contribution to knowledge as uniquely historical, holistic, and dialectical. The essays in Media, Structures, and Power reflect this particular strength. With a clarity of vision, Babe critiques mainstream economics, Canadian government policy, and postmodernist thought in social science. Containing introductions and contributions by other prominent scholars, this volume situates Babe's work within contemporary scholarship and underscores the extent to which he is one of Canada's most prescient thinkers. His interdisciplinary analyses will remain timely and influential well into the twenty-first century.

'A masterpiece... the one single indispensable book that all media students and scholars need to read to understand this vital and growing area of research.'- Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign'A contemporary classic of media studies. Vincent Mosco, among the leading media scholars of our or any time, brings his searing insights and crystal prose to bear on the latest issues and debates of the field… An indispensable resource for researchers, activists, and students everywhere.'- Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside Since publication of its first edition, The Political Economy of Communication has established itself as a true classic and one of the most important contributions to the field. This second edition has been thoroughly restructured, updated and expanded to make it an indispensable text for students and scholars alike. Putting the student at the centre of its updates, this book: Maps the definitions and foundations of political economy Adds 3 new chapters to explore current trends, from feminism and labour to new media, forms of resistance, media reform and democracy Illustrates throughout how power operates across the 21st century media landscape Explores key issues in how media power intersects with globalization, social class, race, gender and surveillance Shows media students why it is essential to understand political economy and its application to media and communication. Combining penetrating theoretical analysis with passionate commitment, Vincent Mosco once again gives readers an indispensable introduction to the field.

Information technology (IT) and broadband are major drivers of economic change, restructuring businesses, affecting skills and employment, and contributing to growth and consumer benefits. This volume describes recent market dynamics and trends in industries supplying IT goods and services and offers an overview of the globalisation of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the rise of ICT-enabled international sourcing. It analyses the development and impact of the changing global distribution of services activities and the rise of China and India as significant supplie.