CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participatory Democracy
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Chesney (2000) explain that why political economy of communication study about capitalist societies and commercial media system speci cally is because they are the main models in the world. Chesney (2000) point out that political economy of communication is a marginal enterprise in us campus , which means it do not have status in the us campus. He tells the reasons why communication is a marginal enterprise in us campus with di erent history reasons (chesney, 2000). Therefore, due to the disregard of communication study in campus, communication departments need to nd other response to support their study. This will cause the involvement of private rights in communication system (chesney, 2000). Chesney (2000) said that communication do not have specific boundaries, it is interdisciplinary study. He continued that communication is never going to gain prestige and status by imitating sociology or psychology (chesney, 2000).