Year: 2013
Type: editorial
Abstract: Recent developments in digital communication technologies have challenged commonly held notions of media systems and the power and production relations that they involve.The networked, global nature of new media has challenged previously well-known orders of business.For example, the introduction of new platforms (smartphones, tablets) not only makes content available to consumers in new ways, but also undermines existing constellations of power and influence between actors at different points in the chain from content production to consumption.Many analyses of the changes to modes of production in the media sector have portrayed these as challenges to established business models.Yet despite the obvious-and sometimes life-threatening-challenges to the ways in which media businesses make a living, the development of digital media changes more than just the financial games of the market.The spread of digital media points back to some of the fundamental issues of the political economy regarding the interlocking relations between media technologies, power and discourse.In this sense, digital media prompts us to revisit some of the founding debates of modern media studies, and engage once again in critical analyses of the intricate ways in which positions of power are contested, established and used through the orchestration of media technologies across different domains.The aim of this special issue is to offer series of detailed analyses of the political economy of digital media.The issue includes critical inquiries into the ways in which old media systems and power structures "translate" into new media schemes and the ways new types of media systems and power structures emerge with the spread and adoption of new Technology, power and the political economy of new media
Authors: Anne Mette Thorhauge, Rasmus Helles
Institution: University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1017419748