The Political Economy of Communication and Culture

Abstract

The second half of the 1970s saw the birth in Europe of a new critical economy of communications and culture. Richeri’s 1983 publication is a collection of foundational literature on the subject. It brings together the work of Smythe and Cesareo (as previously discussed), a revised version of Garnham’s classic article (1979a) and various other important texts. The question of the economy of the media is raised across Europe at this time, in reaction to the massive technological changes occurring in the audiovisual world — changes that were to completely transform the face of Western European television by the end of the 1980s.