The Cultural Industries
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An undisputed classic, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industries. Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an accessible yet critical exploration of cultural production and consumption in the global media landscape. This new edition: Analyses the influence of IT and tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook on the cultural industries.
Discusses the impact of digital technologies on industries such as music, TV, newspapers, books and digital games. Explores the effects of digitalisation on culture, discussing critical issues like participation, power, commercialism, surveillance, and labour. Examines the changing conceptions of audiences, and the increasing influence of market research, audience tracking and advertising. As one of the most read, most studied and most cited books in the field, this Fourth Edition is an essential resource for students and researchers of media and communication studies, the cultural and creative industries, cultural studies and the sociology of the media.
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- SAGE Publications, Ltd. (UK)
- 9781526453495
- 9781526424099
- ePub
- 4
- David Hesmondhalgh
- English
- 2018-12-14
- 100
- 30
- 30
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Sidebar List
- Table List
- Illustration List
- About the Author
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Part One Introducing the Cultural Industries
- 1 Change and Continuity, Power and Creativity
- 2 The Cultural Industries Approach: Distinctive Features of Culture-Producing Businesses
- Part Two Analytical Frameworks
- 3 Theories of Culture, Theories of Cultural Production
- 4 Cultural Industries in the Twentieth Century: The Key Features
- 5 Why the Cultural Industries Began to Change in the Late Twentieth Century
- Part Three Policy Change
- 6 Policy Change in Media and Telecommunications: Marketisation and Copyright
- 7 Cultural Policy: Creative Cities, Creative Industries, Creative Economies
- Part Four Change and Continuity in the Cultural Industries, 1990 to 2017
- 8 Ownership (1): Concentration, Conglomeration and Corporate Power, 1980–2010
- 9 Ownership (2): Concentration, Conglomeration and Corporate Power, 2010 onwards
- 10 How the Claims of Digital Optimists were Contradicted by the Rise of Digital Culture
- 11 The Effects of Digital Networks on Individual Industries
- 12 Creativity, Commerce and Organisation
- 13 Working Conditions and Inequalities in the Cultural Industries
- 14 Internationalisation: Neither Globalisation nor Cultural Imperialism
- 15 Texts: Diversity, Quality and Social Justice
- 16 Conclusions: A New Era in Cultural Production?
- Appendix: Some Objections to my Definition of the Cultural Industries and the Assumptions Employed Therein
- Glossary
- References
- Index