This chapter examines the role mass media plays in the maintenance of social control and policy formulation and implementation in the Trump political era. First, an historical survey of mass media theory is presented and used as an analytic lens through which to identify that mass media has long...

How does the media bias the news? And in particular, how much does it cost owners to ensure that journalists comply with their stance? We compile a unique dataset of journalists and guests appearing on French television and radio shows between 2002 and 2020 to quantify the role played by...

Sequels, reboots, franchises, and songs that remake old songs—does it feel like everything new in popular culture is just derivative of something old? Contrary to popular belief, the reason is not audiences or marketing, but Wall Street. In this book, Andrew deWaard shows how the financial...

Paul Heyer is to be commended for producing a very informative book on Harold Innis’ history of communications. It pulls together the communications elements in Innis’ wide-ranging works, and presents the result in an account that an otherwise uninformed reader can digest. The book is...

"Book publishing in the UK is big business, contributing almost a tenth of UK employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the economy. Despite this, the sector is often overlooked in the creative industries research tide. This book remedies this gap in knowledge, providing an...

What is cultural transduction? -- The market tenet: the ebbs and flows of cultural and media trade between markets -- The product tenet: content of universal appeal -- The people tenet: the jobs making cultural and media products travel between markets -- The process tenet: corporate interests...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Digital Media and The Transformation of Space -- Chapter 3 The Companies We Keep -- Chapter 4 Health as a Social Media -- Chapter 5 The New Rules of Engagement -- Chapter 6 The Robot Journalist in The Age of Social Physics -- Chapter 7 The Times They are A’...

Already among the most important sectors of the US economy, the entertainment and media industries are continuing to grow worldwide. Fully updated, the tenth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics is the definitive reference on the economics of film, music, television, advertising,...