CMNS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wage Labour, Capital Accumulation, Totalitarianism
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Political economy of media and communication (marxist critical pe perspective) De-centering: viewing systems of media and communication as integral to fundamental economic, political, social, and cultural processes in society (mosco, 2008, p. 66). Media in production and reproduction: capital accumulation, and wage- labor, etc: perspectives of pec. Mosco"s 3 perspectives of pec: commodification, spatialization, structuration: commodification: the process of transforming goods with use value into commodities with exchange value in the market. Week 6: internet, capitalism, and democracy1@november 3, 2020 10:15 am. Communication technologies and practices constitute the process of commodification in society (materiality) Media content as products and commodities to sell and buy media messages carry meanings and symbols which contribute to other commodification processes (e. x. advertising) creating need among consumers. In media and culture globalization, media institutions seek for low-cost labor and potential audience worldwide: structuration: social class, gender and race of structuration processes intertwine with the communication process beyond identity politics but power structures.
