Abstract

Political economy of communication is the communication of important research schools, their academic development and the global capitalist system within the establishment, to struggle with the rapid expansion and development of social movements are closely related. The school not only to make up the executive-oriented and market-oriented focus of the U.S. mainstream communication research shortcomings, and deconstruction of the mainstream of knowledge production and dissemination of research social power relations. Political economy of communication on the current capitalist highly commercialized, centralized, to control of the state of the transmission system and transmission phenomena has been profound criticism, reflecting the global political economy of communication scholars at different levels and conducted by Field beyond capitalist social transformation efforts. As one of the important approaches to communication studies, the intellectual trajectories of the political economy of communication are closely intertwined with the establishment and planetary expansion of capitalism as a socio-conomic system on the one hand, and the development of social movements aiming at transcending this system on the other. This approach not only remedies the pitfalls of the administrative and market-oriented mainstream American communication research tradition, but also lays bare the social power relationships underpinning the production of mainstream communication research. While offering profound critiques of excessive commercialization, concentration, de-egulation, as well as the increased statist orientation of capitalist communication institutions and processes, political economy of communication scholars also foreground the multi-aceted social struggles aiming at transforming the current capitalist social order