CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Annoying Orange, Google Wallet, Lilly Singh
Document Summary
Political economy: examines the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, including communication and information resources (meehan, mosco, and wasko, 1993, 107) Key processes of profit accumulation: concentration how much competition is there? vs. how much do fewer people own/ control, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, pure competition. Disney channel ( lm exhib), abc tv ( lm exhib: horizontal same market level, e. g. shaw cable tv channels: food network, diy, ytv, w, showcase, slice, Treehouse, discovery kids: internationalization , labour/production, new markets for distribution/selling. Spotlight: google: most pro table global media corporation, products: google search engine; gmail; google docs; chrome; google+; android os; Google wallet; youtube: revenues: billion us (2014, adwords: 68. 3%: ads placed on google search pages, gmail, etc, adsense: 21. 2%: ads on google network members" website, other: 10. 5%: sale of apps, music, movies in google player; hardware like. Cmst 1a03: google bought youtube . 65 billion usd, 40% videos watched online, 2009: mill.