MDSB25 W11 Lecture Notes
PEofM Today
“New Media” and PEofM
- Continuity or discontinuity between “old” and “new” media?
- The Internet, copyright and information as a commons as a new and important area of
investigation
- Challenging the celebratory rhetoric of new media
Resistance and PEofM
- PEC/M continues to inform work investigating strategies of resisting the mainstream
media
- Builds on the innovations in PEC/M that have followed its encounter with feminist and
anti-racist social perspectives
- Continues the emphasis on understanding communicative labour as a key site of
resistance
Media History and PEofM
- PEC/M continues to inform work investigating the historical formation of media forms
and institutions
- New directions include attentiveness to “communication power from a grass-roots
historical perspective” (M, p. 109)
- Histories of resistance and alternative media
Globalization and PEofM
- PEC/M has become a globally significant theoretical perspective, both in terms of the
scholars doing the work and the integrated global outlook which results from such work
- In an era of globalization, PEC/M can no longer simply be concerned with Western
media imperialism
- The idea of a “transcultural political economy” (Chakravartty and Zhao, 2008)
PEofM Today
“New Media” and PEofM
- Continuity or discontinuity between “old” and “new” media?
- The Internet, copyright and information as a commons as a new and important area of
investigation
- Challenging the celebratory rhetoric of new media
Resistance and PEofM
- PEC/M continues to inform work investigating strategies of resisting the mainstream
media
- Builds on the innovations in PEC/M that have followed its encounter with feminist and
anti-racist social perspectives
- Continues the emphasis on understanding communicative labour as a key site of
resistance
Media History and PEofM
- PEC/M continues to inform work investigating the historical formation of media forms
and institutions
- New directions include attentiveness to “communication power from a grass-roots
historical perspective” (M, p. 109)
- Histories of resistance and alternative media
Globalization and PEofM
- PEC/M has become a globally significant theoretical perspective, both in terms of the
scholars doing the work and the integrated global outlook which results from such work
- In an era of globalization, PEC/M can no longer simply be concerned with Western
media imperialism
- The idea of a “transcultural political economy” (Chakravartty and Zhao, 2008)
