"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...

This paper intends to enhance understanding of the development of the Chinese information system by analysing some aspects of marketisation within the Chinese television sector. From the arguments presented in this paper it becomes clear that marketisation of television in China is a complex...

While there is ample evidence how central bank communication and interest rate decisions are perceived by financial markets, insights regarding the response of the public is lacking. Media is known to be an important transmitter of news to the public. Based on articles in the Financial Times...