Intersectionality, Political Economy, and Media
About this ebook
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.
About the author
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.
