...Chapter 1 unpacks the theoretical foundations and analytical frameworks of the local by thematically mapping its various interpretations throughout critical political economy, critical theory, and critical geography. The chapter begins with a conversation about the local in everyday life...

...The political economy of the 1920s were intricately linked to the demographic changes, emerging social structure, level of racial consciousness, cultural and aesthetic expressions, and religious practices and activities of this pivotal period in Chicago's history. This chapter focuses...

... without a profoundly conflicted restructuring of the global political economy. class power consumer debt debt exchange rates foreign direct investment FDI networked financialization transnational corporations TNCs wage earning class wage repression capitalist states financial institutions...

... to pyramid around it. More specifically, it describes the emergence of extraterritorial internet connectivity as a site of sustained political contestation. It also explains how internet connectivity had been woven into the global political economy, enabling new commodities, altering state policy...

.... These conflicts date back to the emergence of the commercial advertising model in the mid-nineteenth century. Further, this chapter explores an important theoretical critique of news media and business and the political economy theory of mass communications, and it describes how the legacy does and does not apply...

...This introductory chapter aims to set out the political economic framework that anchors this book. It situates search within the broader capitalist political economy in which global capitalism’s developmental growth increasingly hinges on the growth pole of the Internet sector. The chapter...

...The introduction sets out the book’s theoretical and methodological approach by drawing relevant arguments from critical international political economy of communications, the social history of multiple modernities, and decolonial approaches. It also challenges West-centric historical assumptions...

...Through a critical political economy approach to media, this book situates the rise of right-wing populism within the broader structural transformations of Bulgarian media institutions. Free to Hate argues that the populist Right benefits greatly from the neoliberal turn in media...

...Behind the seemingly clean and simple interface of the search box, there lurks the most complex global political economy and geopolitics today. This book un-boxes the political economy of search to show the broader structural changes that are taking place in global capitalism dynamically...

... and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Higher Education Act of 1965 Magnuson Senator Warren Carnegie Commission Coston Dean Department of Health Education and Welfare US Public Television Act Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 Political Economy of Media Dallas Smythe Federal Communications Commission Frieda...

... the internet became an explanation for the destruction of local newspapers. This chapter provides the book’s political economy of media theoretical and methodological lens and explains the databases and investigative reporting techniques used for the book as it orients readers to the current local journalism...

... the prevalence of precarious faculty positions in colleges and universities today—this essay explains the volume’s three-part structure, built around structural analyses of how political economy and social inequalities shape work in higher education, close descriptions of the complexities and everyday...

... of the most persuasive explanations for the appeal of populism. The introduction discusses the applicability of this narrative to Bulgaria, while it also emphasizes the centrality of racism to the East European Far Right. This conceptual section ends with an outline of how a political economy approach...

...The conclusion highlights how the issues examined in the previous chapters reflect the important role of media institutions in the rise of the contemporary populist Right. It once again underlines how a political economy of media approach sheds light on the structural conditions that undergird...

... technology a fundamental pole of growth; and that, when it arrived, the economic crisis could be traced not only to financial speculation but to capital's multifaceted integration of digital systems into the political economy. In this account, the contradictory matrix of technological revolution...

...This chapter examines some of the larger forces that propelled digital capitalism into what was evidently a fraught future. It first considers how the historical movement of the political economy is shaped both within and beyond a top-down, state-oriented geopolitics before discussing how the onset...

.... This book delves into the ways networked systems and ICTs have transformed global capitalism during the so-called Great Recession. It focuses on capitalism's crisis tendencies to confront the contradictory matrix of a technological revolution and economic stagnation making up the current political economy...

...In Chapter 6, the case studies are analyzed through the frameworks of critical regionalism and critical political economy. The first section describes how a political economy of localism has come to exist within media policy discourse. This system favors the status quo over alternatives, tethers...

... how communication regulators in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom defined, mobilized and regulated “the local” in broadcasting from 2000 to 2012. Using critical theories of space and place, critical regionalism and critical political economy, and based on document analysis...