Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Subsistence Economy, Homing Pigeon, Century Media Records
20 Jan 2017
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Political economy of media: deals with the relation between power (politics) wealth, (economics) and media and the means of communication (media) How media get revenues and make profits. The situation of workers (from stars to interns) in media. How all these factors affect the content of media: but to understand what political economy of media is, and its different brances and debates, we have to take a historical view and see where it came from. Most people lived in : subsistence economies. Rural, peasant societies: where people grow or make post of what they need to live, markets (barter, buying and selling) exist but not central to life. Lots of exchanges and trading: communities are materially poor, local in scope, landowners and church extract wealth by force, fear and tradition, poets, painters, musicians, and other cultural producers considered skilled craftspeople or artisans.
