Envisioning Media Power

Brett Christophers is a research fellow in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Reflections on MethodPart 3 Part I: Knowing the Television EconomyChapter 4 1. Enframing CreativityChapter 5 2. Television's Economy and the Power of the Geographical ImaginationChapter 6 3. Knowledge TravelsChapter 7 Conclusion to Part IPart 8 Part II: Capitalizing and Circulating PowerChapter 9 4. Power, Scarcity, and a "Spatial Fix"Chapter 10 5. Television's Local Power RelationsChapter 11 6. Power and Program Pricing in International MarketsChapter 12 7. Circuits of CapitalChapter 13 8. Mirrors, Meters, and Media PowerChapter 14 Conclusion to Part IIPart 15 Part III: From Space to PlaceChapter 16 9. GeopoliticsChapter 17 10. Putting Television in Its PlaceChapter 18 11. The Political Economy of Place in ProgrammingChapter 19 Conclusion to Part IIIChapter 20 Coda: Into the Home of Media PowerChapter 21 Closing Remarks

A penetrating and thought-provoking analysis of an industry that is under-researched and yet of great cultural and economic significance. Using the UK and New Zealand TV industries as windows onto wider processes, Christophers skilfully reveals the complex intersections of knowledge, power and geography through which the sector is constantly being made and remade. Most significantly, the analysis lays bare the different modalities of power which shape the media worlds that surround us all.