Political economy of information, communication and culture
The proposal of CLACSO Working Group on the Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culturea is registered in a vacancy zone within the pre-existing CLACSO Working Groups.
Addressing problems from this theoretical-methodological perspective is crucial for tackling the reconfiguration of regional communication and political scenarios, and enables working on theoretical problems and economic, public policy and regulatory analyses in an aggregate way.
We are a group made up of 38 trained and trainee researchers from eight countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
There is a geography and a set of academic and political trajectories that allow us to speak of a Latin American EPICC (Educational and Political Critical Studies). Its formation reflects a multiplicity of innovative approaches, which define it as a school unified by its shared immersion in the debate and critical thinking of Latin America during the 70s and 80s. From the 90s onward, important traditions were established in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, and progress was made toward its institutionalization.
The Latin American tradition in the area originates on multiple fronts and from a dialogue with the intellectual tradition of the continent, including the theories of imperialism and cultural dependency, but also with the whole of Latin American structuralism, sociology, education and the entire political and economic debate on development and underdevelopment.
The Political Economy of Information, Communication, and Culture (PEICC) analyzes how communication and culture participate in the process of capital accumulation. This encompasses various issues related to the role of the media in this process, the power relations expressed within the cultural system in the context of the increasing integration of mass media into the economic structure, class stratification and inequalities, the conditions of production, distribution, and exchange within cultural industries, and the relationships between centers of political and economic power. In short, it examines social classes, the media, the relationship between material and intellectual production, and communication policies. PEICC focuses on the study of social relations, particularly power relations, that constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, including communication resources.
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Daniela Inés Monje
Center for Advanced Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
National University of Cordoba
Argentina
Elizabeth Ramos
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador
Ecuador
Cesar Bolaño
Graduate Program in Geography
Federal University of Sergipe
Brazil
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