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Critical Political Economy

Critical Political Economy
A critical political economy can be defined as a theory that identifies a socially critical approach that focuses primarily on the relation between the economic structure and dynamics of media industries and the ideological content of media (McQuail, 2000, p. 82). McQuail (2000, p. 82) adds that it directs attention to the empirical of the structure of ownership and control of media and the way media market forces operate. The argument that political economy is concerned with the macro-questions of media ownership and control is further supported by Boyd-Barrett and Newbold (1995, p. 186), who state that Vincent Mosco defines political economy as ‘the study of social relations, particularly power relations, that mutually constitute the production, distribution and consumption of resources including communication resources, but in its more ambitious form, it is the study of control and survival of social life’.
Golding and Murdock (1991, p. 18...

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