"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...

News from Germany traces why Germans became interested in international communications around 1900 and how they sought to control it for the next 45 years. They used new communications technologies, like wireless and radio, and they used the central businesses of news supply - news agencies. An...

"This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China's media industry--one of the primary battlegrounds where ideological, social and economic struggles are fought--against the backdrop of the growing...