The political economies of media : the transformation of the global media industries / edited by Dwayne Winseck, Dal Yong Jin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political economies of media and the transformation of the global media industries / Dwayne Winseck -- Principal ongoing mutations of cultural and informational industries / Bernard Miege -- Media ownership, oligarchies, and globalization: media concentration in South America / Guillermo Mastrini and Martin Becerra -- Media as creative industries: conglomeration and globalization as accumulation strategies in an age of digital media / Terry Flew -- The structure and dynamics of communications business networks in an era of convergence: mapping the global networks of the information business / Amelia Arsenault -- Hard jobs in Hollywood: how concentration in distribution affects the production side of the media entertainment industry / Susan Christopherson -- Financialization and the "crisis of the media": the rise and fall of (some) media conglomerates in Canada / Dwayne Winseck -- Deconvergence and deconsolidation in the global media industries: the rise and fall of (some) media conglomerates / Dal Yong Jin -- Navigational media: the political economy of online traffic / Elizabeth Van Couvering -- The contemporary World Wide Web: social medium or new space of accumulation? / Christian Fuchs -- Running on empty? The uncertain financial futures of public service media in the contemporary media policy environment / Peter A. Thompson -- Mediation, financialization, and the global financial crisis: an inverted political economy perspective / Aeron Davis -- The wizards of Oz: peering behind the curtain on the relationship between central banks and the business media / Marc-Andre Pigeon.