The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

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 in the field.

This contemporary guide to political economics of communication combines authoritative overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research.  Including newly commissioned essays by the best-known scholars in the field, the Handbook of Political Economy of Communication  explores and interrogates different approaches and problematics across different political and cultural regions, and offers a theoretical map of the field, both historically and conceptually.