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Communication and Culture and feminist theory Abstract. The Political Economy of Communication and Culture (PECC) and feminist critical theory have traditionally gone in parallel, with few attempts to strengthen the dialogue between both approaches. The existing attempts have focused on three lines of research: the analysis of the situation of women as workers in media companies; the critique of the commodification of the audience-women; and the denunciation of the representation of women, especially in advertising. In this work we point out the convenience of building a convergent agenda based on the potential of the PECC to frame research on women and communication from a historical and materialistic perspective. However, it is argued that it is necessary to renew and update the PECC with the contributions of the latest feminist theory in order to refine the analysis of the relationships between gender, power and communication, and incorporate the key issue of social reproduction and care work. ; . La Economía Política de la Comunicación y la Cultura (EPCC) y la teoría crítica feminista han transitado tradicionalmente de manera paralela, con escasos intentos por fortalecer el diálogo entre ambas. Los intentos realizados se han centrado en tres líneas de investigación: el análisis de la situación de las mujeres como trabajadoras de las empresas mediáticas; la crítica de la mercantilización de la audiencia-mujeres; y la denuncia de la representación de la mujer, especialmente en la publicidad. En este trabajo sostenemos la conveniencia de construir una agenda convergente partiendo del potencial de la EPCC para enmarcar desde una perspectiva histórica y materialista la investigación sobre mujeres y comunicación. No obstante, se argumenta la necesidad de que la EPCC renueve y actualice sus planteamientos con los aportes de la más reciente teoría feminista para sofisticar el análisis de las relaciones entre género, poder y comunicación, incorporando decididamente la cuestión central de la reproducción social y los cuidados.

Government officials and politicians have been both a help and hindrance in the public dissemination of information during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention of a president and his/her ministries with their political and economic interests is particularly problematic when they employ a tactical approach rather than provide accurate and effective disaster information. This paper utilizes a political-economy approach to analyze the link between COVID-19 communication policies and practices with the interests of politics and market stability in Indonesia. In this paper, the author drills into the extent to which the country's president and ministries manage their political interests in times of global pandemic. The ways they interact with the public during various stages of disaster are crucial because society is severely disrupted, with the government serving as the sole actor. This study uses qualitative methods and all materials are managed from an extensive review of current literature, policy analysis, and field observation. This paper finds that Indonesian government communication during the COVID-19 pandemic period (February– June 2020) has been dominated by a desire to maintain a strong power of the ruling authority and to secure market stability. Two factors—pro-market communication policies and manufactured- politicized COVID-19 data—have occurred. This paper contributes to the literature by focusing on the political and economic approach over the mediated discourses surrounding the pandemic.

This article confronts the question of how we might renew the political economy of communication for an era of communicative abundance rather than scarcity. Drawing on Jodi Dean's concept of "communicative capitalism," I argue that, if capitalism has become more communicative, then the reinvigoration of political-economic critique necessitates the analysis of, engagement with, and support of the labor that generates profits in the media and communications industries.

Approaches to the critique of the political economy of communication in society belong to the "forgotten theories" in media and communication studies. But in view of the unmistakable structural change of a media industry "unleashed" by deregulation, privatisation, digitalisation, concentration, globalisation, etc., it seems from an academic perspective necessary to analyse the development of the media industry in close connection with the equally unmistakable general development of an "unleashed" capitalism. This article therefore shows that the analysis of the development processes of capitalism as the undoubtedly globally dominant economic and social system from a political economy perspective makes it possible to analyse, explain, and partly forecast the economisation or commercialisation process in the media industry in an academically appropriate way with regard to its causes, forms, consequences, and further development. Theoretical explanations are offered by the further developments of the analysis and critique of contemporary capitalism based on Marxs critique of the political economy as a historical-materialist analysis of society. In doing so, the permanent fundamental characteristics, modes of functioning and "regularities" of the capitalist mode of production and the capitalist formation of society are analysed in connection with the particularities of the current capitalisation process in the media industry. ; (VLID)6423720

Este artículo plantea la centralidad del enfoque de la Economía Política de la comunicación y la cultura, ya no solo para entender lo comunicacional como rasgo distintivo de época, cuyos límites parecen carecer de convencionalidad, sino las relaciones sociales en tanto relaciones de fuerza, relaciones de poder, en las cuales, en esta fase del capitalismo, la comunicación es elemento constitutivo. Las Nuevas tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación han sido un factor determinante del desarrollo de este proceso, como un medio de transmisión de información y como vector de las dinámicas estructurantes de la sociedad. ; This article raises centrality of the approach of the Political Economy of Communication and Culture, not only to understand the communicational as a distinctive feature of time, whose limits seem to lack conventionality, but social relations as power relations, in this phase of capitalism, in wich communication is a constitutive factor. New Information and Communication Technologies have been a determining factor in the development of this process, as a means of transmitting information and as a vector of the structuring dynamics of society. ; Instituto de Investigaciones en Comunicación

Communication scholars hold special knowledge and occupy positions of power. This article examines the question of whether communication scholars have particular responsibilities to assist in the propagation of truth, enhance the debate on ideas, provide insight into the universe of media technology, and engage in public citizenship. Drawing on philosophical and political economy texts, the author brings the political economy tradition into Denzin's "critical pedagogy" project. Political economy's challenge is to expand its contribution to educational reform and deepen its commitment beyond class to race, gender, and ethnicity.

This authoritative study explores China's rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country's rise to global power. The industry in all its forms--ranging from the news media to entertainment outlets to the Internet--has been a critical battleground among different social forces in this period of wrenching change. The author explores alterations in the structure and content of Chinese communication in light of the rapid evolution of state-society relations to reveal the profoundly contradictory, conflicted, and uncertain nature of China's ongoing transformation.

La distancia que separa a los economistas políticos de la comunicación europeos –de corte eminentemente marxista– de los norteamericanos –con un activismo político más liberal–, así como la confusión epistemológica y metodológica sobre lo que es y no es la economía política de la comunicación la cultura (EPCC) que la disciplina arrastra desde sus inicios (probablemente en parte a raíz de esta ausencia de consenso y de base común), ha conducido a algunos a hablar de la necesaria refundación de la misma, o incluso de su superación. Por el contrario, este artículo argumenta que se no se trata de redefinir a la EPCC sino de recuperarla en toda su dimensión como enfoque crítico con vocación de exhaustividad e influencia de la filosofía moral. Para ello, este texto pretende volver a las raíces históricas del enfoque, haciendo especial énfasis en los economistas clásicos, a los que se propone redescubrir para la EPCC y para la economía política en general. Y todo ello con el objetivo de poner de manifiesto la enorme riqueza que atesora un enfoque epistemológico infrautilizado y, sin embargo, armado con un enorme potencial democratizador. ; The gap that separates the European political economists of communication –more Marxistrooted– from their American counterparts –who tend to profess more liberal political ideas–, as well as the epistemological and methodological confusion, which has burdened this approach from the beginning, about what is and what is not the political economy of communication and culture (PECC) (probably due to this lack of consensus or of a common basis), have led some scholars to talk about the need for refounding the approach or even to declare it obsolete. On the contrary, this paper argues that the point is not to redefine the PECC but to recover its true dimensions, to reclaim it as a critical approach that aspires to comprehensiveness and is influenced by moral philosophers. With this aim in mind, this paper goes back to the historical roots of the approach, especially emphasizing the role of the classical economists. That is, we propose to rediscover the classical economists for the PECC and for political economy in general. In all of this we have a main purpose: to stress the enormous wealth contained in an epistemological approach that has been underexploited in spite of its vast democratizing potential.