MDSC01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dynamite Entertainment, Social Class, Structuration Theory
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Vincent mosco overview of the political economy of communication. Political economy a major perspective in communication research; The study of social relations, particularly the power relations, that mutually constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, including communication resources. The study of control and survival in social life; Control refers to how a society organizes itself, manages its affairs and adapts/ fails to adapt to the inevitable changes that all societies face; control is political; Survival refers to how people produce what they need to reproduce themselves and to keep the society going; survival is economic (it involves production and reproduction); This definition gives political economy the breadth to encompass all human activity and all living processes; But: this definition is too broad (we no longer see what distinguishes human political economy from more general processes of survival in nature); Political economy has constantly attempted to understand social change and historical transformation;
