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Professor Janet Wasko: An Interview with the President of the IAMCR and one of the Key Representatives of the Political Economy of Communication Approach
No full textThis paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition of the political economy of communication. Currently she is serving as the President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), one of the key international associations in the field of media and communication studies. She previously held several other positions in the IAMCR and served as the head of the Political Economy-section, which she also helped to establish. Professor Wasko published several influential books on the film industry, especially on Hollywood and the Disney Corporation. We talked especially about the influences on her approach, about her position in the IAMCR, her understanding of how the cultural and media industries work, the political economy approach in media and communication studies, and issues related to the film industry, which she mostly tackles in her own research
Slavko Splichal, Janet Wasko (eds.): Communication and Democracy. Ablex Publishing: Norwood, New Nersey, 1993
No full textSlavko Splichal in Janet Wasko: Communication and Democrac
Janet Wasko et Vincent Mosco, éds (1992). Democratic Communications in the Information Age
No full textGasher Mike. Janet Wasko et Vincent Mosco, éds (1992). Democratic Communications in the Information Age . In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 15 n°2, automne 1994. pp. 247-251
Janet Wasko et Vincent Mosco, éds (1992). Democratic Communications in the Information Age
No full textGasher Mike. Janet Wasko et Vincent Mosco, éds (1992). Democratic Communications in the Information Age . In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 15 n°2, automne 1994. pp. 247-251
Introduction: the political economy of communications: core, concerns and issues
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Culture, services, knowledge : television between policy regimes
No full textThe chapter takes an explicit policy-oriented focus and tracks television as it has been or could be deliberated on across policy 'regimes'. These three grids of understanding – 'culture', 'services', and 'knowledge' - also serve as historical and/or possible rationales for state intervention in television, as well as the industry's own understandings of its nature and role. To emphasize the dynamic, overlapping and in part contesting nature of these regimes, I use Raymond Williams' (1981: 204) distinction between residual, dominant and emergent cultural forces. The first, residual, regime, that of cultural policy, is of well-established vintage for television but is under siege. The second, the dominant, the service industry model, is the most widespread regime. The third, emergent, regime, the place of television in the knowledge economy, is embryonic at this stage of its development
“Political economic research continues to explore the concentration of media ownership and the consequences of commercialized media for a consumer society”: Interview with Janet Wasko
No full textEptic: How do you observe the context of the research focus of the Political Economy of Communication within the U.S. academic community in the XXI century? In what direction are the main researches in the U.S. currently heading? Janet Wasko: The study of the political economy of communications in the US continues to provide an important and essential analysis for media studies. While mostly ignored by mainstream media economists and rejected by many cultural theorists, the tradition is continuing to grow, especially among new communication scholars. Political economic esearch continues to explore the concentration of media ownership and the consequences of commercialized media for a consumer society. US and Canadian scholars also are developing an even more sophisticated theoretical foundation, as evidenced by a number of new books relating to theories of political economy and media. An interesting development is the tendency for younger scholars to integrate political economic analysis with cultural theories, thus providing an even more compelling explanation of role in contemporary society
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