Envisioning Media Power

On Capital and Geographies of Television

AvBrett Christophers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy. It uses theories of political economy as the basis for a comparative empirical examination of the UK and New Zealand television markets, while closely considering these markets' respective relationships with the US market and its globally-influential media corporations. In fleshing out this geographical perspective, the book critically addresses the power to produce, reproduce, and extract profit from territorialized media markets. To understand such powers, the book examines processes of creation and dissemination of industry knowledge, structures of industry governance, and the locational characteristics of television's operational economy. Through its rigorous and creative combination of conceptual insights with empirical substance, Envisioning Media Power both illuminates the fabric of television's international space economy, and ultimately offers a unique theoretic argument - suggesting that power, knowledge and geography are inseparable not only from one another, but from the process of accumulation of media capital.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-16
Mått:163 x 239 x 35 mm
Vikt:850 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739123447

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Brett Christophers is a research fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden.

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A penetrating and thought-provoking analysis of an industry that is under-researched and yet of great cultural and economic significance. Using the UK and New Zealand TV industries as windows onto wider processes, Christophers skilfully reveals the complex intersections of knowledge, power and geography through which the sector is constantly being made and remade. Most significantly, the analysis lays bare the different modalities of power which shape the media worlds that surround us all.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Reflections on MethodPart 3 Part I: Knowing the Television EconomyChapter 4 1. Enframing CreativityChapter 5 2. Television's Economy and the Power of the Geographical ImaginationChapter 6 3. Knowledge TravelsChapter 7 Conclusion to Part IPart 8 Part II: Capitalizing and Circulating PowerChapter 9 4. Power, Scarcity, and a "Spatial Fix"Chapter 10 5. Television's Local Power RelationsChapter 11 6. Power and Program Pricing in International MarketsChapter 12 7. Circuits of CapitalChapter 13 8. Mirrors, Meters, and Media PowerChapter 14 Conclusion to Part IIPart 15 Part III: From Space to PlaceChapter 16 9. GeopoliticsChapter 17 10. Putting Television in Its PlaceChapter 18 11. The Political Economy of Place in ProgrammingChapter 19 Conclusion to Part IIIChapter 20 Coda: Into the Home of Media PowerChapter 21 Closing Remarks