Intersectionality, Political Economy, and Media

This textbook considers the critical relationship between gender, race and class and the political economy of media, providing an accessible introduction for students.

This textbook considers the critical relationship between gender, race, and class and the political economy of media, providing an accessible introduction for students.

Carolyn M. Byerly integrates gender, race, and class analysis in posing an intersectional political economy (IPE) of media theory, and demonstrates how that theory applies in examining communication laws, policies, technology, and other aspects of media today. By synthesizing feminist and critical race theories with more traditional class analysis, this book offers a unified approach to examining the media. Individual chapters delve into communication policy, ownership, governance, labor, and technology issues, with a concluding chapter that explores future research. The book situates citizen challenges to the media's control by a small power elite within a dialectic of struggle and highlights specific campaigns that have pursued successful policy and media reform. Several short case studies by other authors illustrate how an IPE investigation can be undertaken.

This is a key text for undergraduate and graduate media and communication courses such as Media and Society, Political Economy of Media, Gender, Race and Media, Research Methods, and more. It will also appeal to social science classes such as Media Sociology, Labor Studies, and Political Economy Research.

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Carolyn M. Byerly is Professor Emerita in Communication, Howard University, United States. She is the author of many articles and book chapters, as well as editor, co-editor, or author of several books, including The Palgrave Handbook of Women in Journalism (2013), Women and Media: A Critical Introduction (2006), and Women and Media: International Perspectives (2004). Her scholarship as a critical feminist scholar has examined women's media employment, communication policies, media ownership, and other topics from a political economy perspective.

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PART I: Intersectionality in Media Research 1. Revisiting Political Economy of Media 2. Intersectional Political Economy of Media Theory PART II: Reframing Media Investigations 3. Laws, Policies, and Ownership 4. Labor and Technology PART III: New Directions 5. Staking out the Future PART IV: Case Studies 6. Neoliberal Academics as News Sources Marian Meyers and Virginia Massignan 7. American Woman: Nicki Minaj, Transnationalism, and U.S. Values Sholnn Z. Freeman 8. All Work, Low Pay: An Intersectional Political Economy Critique of Platform Labor Micky Lee