将近半个多世纪，伴随大众媒体在文化政治、意识领导与经济领域的分量有增无减，传播政治经济学对各种学科，从文学与文化研究至公共政策与财经、法学，全面展开对话，从中演绎合适的实践路径。这本文集以传播政治经济学所主要关切的研究议题为核心，分别从该学派的历史起源与理论基础，方法思索与跨学科对话，广告的权力与受众商品的塑造，产权与盎格鲁—美国语境下的控制，资本主义整合的全球、民族与本土动力，转型的场域、能动性与进程等六个方面建构这个学派批判性的阐释路径。

读本以传播政治经济学所主要关切的研究议题为核心，分别从该学派的历史起源与理论基础，方法思索与跨学科对话，广告的权力与受众商品的塑造，产权与盎格鲁—美国语境下的控制，资本主义整合的全球、民族与本土动力，转型的场域、能动性与进程等六个方面建构这个学派批判性的阐释路径。读本的论文组织以英美为主，兼顾其他国家与地区，主流批判中涵盖另类建设，突出对话，在传播与政治经济相互关联、作用的过程中关注多样化的论题，并贯穿阶级、社会性别、种族、国家与区域的研究视野。

序言

Part One: Historical Origins and Theoretical Foundations

 1.Theories of Communication and Theories of Society

 Peter GoldingGraham Murdock

 2.The Legacy of Robert A.Brady: Antifascist Origins of the Political Economy of Communications

 Dan Schiller

 3.The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications

 Ronald V.Bettig

 4.Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism

 Dallas W.Smythe

 5.“Introduction” to Who Knows: Information in the Age of Fortune 500

 Herbert I.Schiller

 6.“Introduction” to Information and the Crisis Economy

 Herbert I.Schiller

 7.Reconstructing the Ruined Tower: Contemporary Communications and Questions of Class

 Graham Murdock

 8.The Information Commodity: A Preliminary View

 Dan Schiller

 9.The Political Economy Approach: A Critical Challenge

 Oscar H.Gandy, Jr.

 10.Political Economy, Communication, and Labor

 Vincent Mosco

 11.Political Economy, Power and New Media

 Robin Mansell

Part Two: Methodological Considerations and Disciplinary Dialogues

 12.Abstracted Empiricism

 C.Wright Mills

 13.Media Sociology: The Dominant Paradigm

 Todd Gitlin

 14.The Rediscovery of “Ideology”: Return of the Repressed in Media Studies

 Stuart Hall

 15.Rethinking Political Economy: Change and Continuity

 Eileen R.Meehan Vincent Mosco Janet Wasko

 16.Not Yet the PostImperialist Era

 Herbert I.Schiller

 17.The Political Economy of Communication and the Future of the Field

 Robert W.McChesney

Part Three: The Power of Advertising and the Making of the Audience Commodity

 18.Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

 Sut Jhally

 19.The Restructuring of the European Advertising Industry

 Armand Mattelart

 20.Capitalism and Control of the Press

 James Curran

 21.Advertising and the Content of a Democratic Press

 C.Edwin Baker

 22.Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy

 Eileen R.Meehan

 23.Race, Ethnicity and the Segmentation of Media Markets Oscar H.Gandy, Jr.

Part Four: Ownership and Control in the AngloAmerican Contexts: Capital, the State, and Other Social Forces

 24.The Process of Legitimation-Ⅱ

 Ralph Miliband

 25.A Propaganda Model

 Edward HermanNoam Chomsky

 26.Extending and Refining the Propaganda Model

 Colin Sparks

 27.Large Corporations and the Control of the Communications Industries

 Graham Murdock

 28.The Publishing Industry

 Mark Crispin Miller

 29.Speaking Volumes: The Book Publishing Oligopoly and Its Cultural Consequences

 Leah F.Binder

 30.Government Financial Support to the Film Industry in the United States

 Thomas Guback

 31.The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege over Democracy

 Robert W.McChesney

 32.Copyright and the Commodification of Culture

 Ronald V.Bettig

 33.Stealth Regulation: Moral Meltdown and Political Radicalism at the Federal

 Communications Commission

 Andrew Calabrese

 34.Dynamics of Power in Contemporary Media PolicyMaking

 Des Freedman

 35.Commercialism and Professionalism in the American News Media

 Daniel C.Hallin

 36.The Hidden Side of Television Violence

 George Gerbner

Part Five:International Perspectives: The Global, and National, and Local Dynamics of Capitalist Integration

 37.The Context: Great Media Debate

 Kaarle Nordenstreng

 38.The Processes: From Nationalisms to Transnationals

 Jésus MartínBarbero

 39.Communication and the Postcolonial NationState: A New Political Economic Research Agenda

 Amin Alhassan

 40.Who Speaks for Asia: Media and Information Control in the Global Economy

 Gerald SussmanJohn A.Lent

 41.Global Productions

 Gerald SussmanJohn A.Lent

 42.Political Economy and Ethnography: Transformations in an Indian Village

 Manjunath Pendakur

 43.A Contemporary “Denial of Access”: Knowledge, IPR and the Public Good

 Pradip Thomas

Part Six: Sites, Agents and Processes of Transformation

 44.Rethinking Media and Democracy

 James Curran

 45.Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism

 Nick Witheford

 46.For a Political Economy of Indymedia Practice

 Bob Hanke

 47.Global Commons, Public Space and Contemporary IPR

 Lawrence Liang

 48.Who Speaks for the Governed? World Summit on Information Society, Civil Society and the Limits of “Multistakeholderism”

Paula Chakravartty

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