International Political Economy in Turkey: The Evolution and Current State of…

Since its emergence in the 1970s, international political economy (IPE) has been one of the main subfields of International Relations (IR) in North America and Britain. The past two decades have witnessed a growing academic interest in IPE among Turkish IR scholars. This study explores the emergence, evolution and the current state of IPE studies in Turkey. Based on an original dataset, it exam…

Institutional transformation and enterprise change in an emergent capitalist …

The collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe has transformed many of the institutions governing state enterprises and was expected to lead to radical changes in enterprise structures and practices. This was especially so where ownership had changed. However, just as new constitutions do not create liberal democracies overnight, so too the withdrawal of the state from direct control over th…

Critical Communication Policy Research and the Attention Economy: From Digita…

In this essay, I use a critical political economy of the attention economy to develop an understanding of the ways in which communication policies distribute communicative power. The policy issues I consider are Internet regulation, copyright, paracopyright, and advertising. Communication policies are analyzed in terms of their role in determining the conditions of audience practices and distri…

Chinese media transition and news production of nationalism: the political, p…

What factors fuel the construction of popular nationalism through news discourses in China? Why marketization and deregulation of the media sector have not given equal access to represent alternative voices in an increasingly diversified society? This article contributes to tackling these questions through i) reviewing and critiquing the two mainstream current approaches to the two questions, i…

Inequalities in Remote Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic.(e-journal)

Remote gig work provided alternatives to in-person work during the COVID-19 pandemic, but digital inequality literature suggests that such opportunities are not equally available to all. Analyzing a survey of 1,551 U.S. adults in May 2020, we ask how sociodemographic factors and Internet skills relate to performing online work on a piece-rate basis before and during the pandemic. In our sample,…

CONCEPT OF INFORMATION ECONOMY AND ITS IMPLICATION FOR BANGLADESH (e-journal)

Despite much discussion in recent years, there are many understandings of information economy. No dominant analytical framework has emerged on how to participate in this economy. To secure full benefits of the information economy a country needs to formulate appropriate strategies and plans based upon the analysis of currently available information, data and statistics. For a developing country…

Urban sociology: the contribution and limits of political economy (e-journal)

This paper departs from reviews of urban sociology that juxtapose competing Marxist and ecological theories, arguing instead that over the last 25 years a venerable social organization paradigm has been superseded by a fertile political economy paradigm that continues to orchestrate current research. The contributions of political economy are reviewed under six headings: historical explanation,…

The relation between media expenditure and general economy

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Vol. 6, Issue 3

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Vol. 6, Issue 3

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13-25 hlm ; 13 lembar

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Social justice and the global economy: new challenges for social work in the …

The globalization of the economy creates new challenges for social work in the arenas of social and economic justice. This article outlines social justice issues related to the debt crisis of the Global South and sweatshops. A presentation of colonial precursors is followed by a detailed examination of these global institutions with an emphasis on the vulnerability, disempowered status, and exp…

Wikileaks and the critique of the political economy (e-journal)

In his seminal introduction to the field, Vincent Mosco defines the political economy of communication as the "study of the social relations, particularly the power relations that mutually constitute the production, distribution, and consumption of resources, including communication resources" (Mosco, 2009, pp. 2). Terms that have been used for naming this field have been "political economy of …