Communications Policy and Cultural Political Economy: Charting the Collapse of the Neoliberal Consensus in the United States.
This article charts the fracturing of the neoliberal consensus in the United States through the lens of communications policy activism. I employ a framework of cultural political economy to understand the productive role of communications policy discourse in structuring political alliances in this m...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 15; pp. 3698 - 3719 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2021
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