The Political Economy of Media and Power is a highly interdisciplinary and innovative edited
collection bringing together a diverse range of chapters that address some of the most
important issues of our times. Contributors cut through media spectacle and make visible the
intersections between mass media and the politics of power in the contemporary social world.
The book is intended to foster critical pedagogy chapters explore ways in which media connect
with a broad range of topics and issues including globalization war and terrorism foreign
affairs democracy governmental relations the cultural politics of militarization gender
inequality and the sexist saturation of the public sphere media representations of women
media spin and public relations within the broader context of corporate and ideological power.
The volume features notable contributors including a preface by Cees Hamelink an introduction
by David Miller and William Dinan and chapters from Justin Lewis Robin Andersen Henry Giroux
James Winter Robert Jensen Stuart Allan Richard Keeble Yasmin Jiwani David Berry Gerald
Sussman and Andrew Mullen.
