Dwayne Winseck is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Canada.Dal yong Jin is Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University and Associate Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

• List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface AcknowledgmentsPart One: Introductory Essay 1The Political Economies of Media and the Transformation of the Global Media Industries: An Introductory Essay 3Dwayne Winseck, Carleton UniversityPart Two: From the Singular to the Plural-Theorizing the Digital and Networked Media Industries in theTwenty-First Century Principal ongoing mutations of Cultural and Informational Industries Bernand Miège, Carleton UniversityMedia Ownership, Oligarchies, and Globalization: Media Concentration in South America Guillermo Mastrini and Martín Becerra, University of Buenos AiresMedia as Creative Industries: Conglomeration and Globalization as Accumulation Strategies in an Age of Digital Media Terry Flew, Queensland University of TechnologyThe Structure and Dynamics of Communications Business Networks in an Era of Convergence: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Business Amelia Arsenault, Annenberg School, University of PennsylvaniaPart Three The Conquest of Capital or Creative Gales of Destruction? Hard Jobs in Hollywood: How Concentration in Distribution Affects the Production Side of the Media Entertainment Industry 123Susan Christopherson, Cornell UniversityFinancialization and the "Crisis of the Media": The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerates in Canada Dwayne Winseck, Carleton UniversityDeconvergence and Deconsolidation in the Global Media Industries: The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerate(s) Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser UniversityNavigational Media: The Political Economy of Online Traffic Elizabeth Van Couvering, Leicester UniversityThe Contemporary World Wide Web: Social Medium or New Space of Accumulation? Christian Fuchs, Uppsala UniversityPart Four Communication, Conventions, and "Crises"Running on empty?: The Uncertain Financial Futures of Public Service Media in the Contemporary Media PolicyEnvironmentPeter A. Thompson, University of WellingtonMediation, Financialization, and the Global Financial Crisis: An Inverted Political Economy Perspective Aeron Davis, University of LondonThe Wizards of Oz: Peering Behind the Curtain on the RelationshipBetween Central Banks and the Business Media Marc-André Pigeon, Carleton UniversityReferences Suggested Subject Index Terms

The Political Economies of Media is the most thoughtful, original and compelling set of essays on contemporary global media industries that I have ever read. Dwayne Winseck and Dal Yong Jin are to be congratulated for shepherding and contributing to this crucial contribution to media studies. It should be mandatory reading for scholars, studentts and concerned citizens