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Revisiting the Political Economy of Communication: A Conversation with
Nicholas Garnham
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014. 14:00-16:00
CAMRI Research Seminar
University of Westminster, Harrow campus (Metropolitan Line, tube stop:
Northwick Park)
Room A6.08 (6th floor, A block)
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/revisiting-the-political-economy-of-communication-a-conversation-with-nicholas-garnham
Registration at latest until January 19th, per e-mail to
christian.fu...@uti.at
Nicholas Garnham has played a major role in British Media and
Communication Studies, the emergence and development of what James
Curran has termed the Westminster School of Media and Communication
Studies, and the Political Economy of Communication. His works have
focused on and have influenced the intellectual debates on topics such
as capitalism and communication, the cultural industries, information
and communication technologies, information society theory, media and
modernity, media and telecommunications policy, public service media,
the public sphere, the relationship between Cultural Studies and
Political Economy in Media and Communication Studies, and the theory and
sociology of culture.
The Political Economy of Communication is today an established field of
study that has been institutionalised in the form of research networks
such as the International Association of Media and Communication
Research’s (IAMCR) Political Economy Section, journals, conferences,
handbooks, the regular publication of new books, chapters and articles,
undergraduate and postgraduate modules, textbooks, continuous works by
PhD students, etc.
The task of this seminar is to revisit some of Nicholas Garnham’s ideas,
writings and contributions to the study of the Political Economy of
Communication and to reflect on the concepts, history, current status
and perspectives of this field and the broader study of political
economy today.
Christian Fuchs will chair this conversation.
Recommended Readings:
Garnham, Nicholas. 1979. Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass
Communication. Media, Culture & Society 1 (2): 123-146. Available at:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/devereux/website%20material/Proofed%20web%20materials/Journal%20articles/Chap%203%20-%20Garnham%20'Contribution%20to%20a%20Political%20Economy....pdf
Garnham, Nicholas. 2011. The Political Economy of Communication
Revisited. In The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications, eds.
Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock and Helena Sousa, 41-61. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell.
Biographies:
After studying English Literature at Cambridge University Nicholas
Garnham worked from 1963-70 in Television as film editor and film
director. He joined the Polytechnic of Central London (that is now the
University of Westminster) in 1972 to teach film making and film theory.
In 1974 he was made head of the newly created Department of
Communications and headed the team that created the first Media Studies
degree in the UK. He is founding editor of the journal Media, Culture
and Society. In 1986 he founded the Centre for Communication and
Information Studies (CCIS) – that today is the Communication and Media
Research Institute (CAMRI) – and remained its director until he retired
from the University of Westminster in 2002. In 1987 he started with
William Melody the annual European Communication Policy Research
Conference. Since 2002, Nicholas Garnham is Emeritus Professor of Media
Studies, University of Westminster. He is author of many contributions
to Media and Communication Studies, including the books The Economics of
UK Television (Sage 1987, with R. Collins and G. Locksley), Capitalism
and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information (Sage
1990), Emancipation, the Media and Modernity (Oxford University Press 2000).
Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the University of
Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute and the Centre
for Social Media Research. He is the editor of the journal tripleC:
Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at), chair of
the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 – Sociology
of Communications and Media Research, Vice Chair of the EU COST Action
“Dynamics of Virtual Work” and author of books such as “Social Media: A
Critical Introduction” (Sage 2014), “Digital Labour and Karl Marx”
(Routledge 2014) and “Foundations of Critical Media and Information
Studies” (Routledge 2011).
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