This article confronts the question of how we might renew the political economy of communication for an era of communicative abundance rather than scarcity. Drawing on Jodi Dean's concept of "communicative capitalism," I argue that, if capitalism has become more communicative, then the reinvigoration of political-economic critique necessitates the analysis of, engagement with, and support of th…
Past studies have overlooked the joint effects of economic and customer experience factors on service purchase behaviors. Furthermore, service firms tend to make substantial investments in enhancing customer experience, mitigating the negative effects of service failures through recovery efforts and increasing overall customer satisfaction. Yet, largely due to a paucity of data, we know little …
Satisfying the constraints for sustainable regulatory telecommunications policies is more challenging for regulatory regimes based on competition than monopoly. In an earlier paper, Johannes Bauer and I used complexity theory to improve our understanding of the requirements for sustainable telecommunications policies, showing that regulation has a diminishing capacity to achieve specifically de…
Traditional perspectives of film studies address cinema as a medium, format, or art form with associated scholarly studies in terms of historical, cultural, societal, or literary contexts; in contrast, Emma Pett, in her latest book, Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience Economy, focuses on active audience participation in cinema. Although the major…
This paper studies the animation industry by exploring European animation festivals panoramically from the perspective of aesthetic economy and space economy. It is found that semiotic products with great semiotic meaning are not a kind of transcendental presentation but daily reality in the aesthetic economy and space economy era. The animation industry, which is focused on cultural and creati…
This article reports descriptive research concerning past presidents' rhetorical leadership of the economy. Using the PERL logical text language, every presidential remark on the economy, unemployment, inflation, and the federal deficit is extracted from Public Papers of the Presidents from the Truman administration through April 2002. These data are coded for the frequency and relative optimis…
Germany continues to suffer from anemic economic growth. In 2004, the German economy grew at disappointing 1.7 percent, and German analysts have forecast 2005 growth at 0.7 percent. This low growth reflects Germany's large structural difficulties hampering its long-term economic expansion. German labor markets must become more flexible, and a weakening corporate sector must be revived. While th…
On New Year's Day 2011, I flew to Lagos to research human trafficking in Nigeria. Towards the end of my trip, I visited a small town called Badagry, about a two-hour drive west of Lagos. In 1502, Portuguese colonists built one of the first slave-trading posts along the coast of West Africa in this city. The non-descript, two-story building still stands today as a museum, but for more than 300 y…
The European Union is in crisis. Economic crisis, but also political crisis and symbolic crisis: the citizens distrust Europe which does not have clear project anymore Our hypothesis is that the solidarity economy can contribute to the emergence of a new European, clear and mobilizing project. A project offering new socioeconomic perspectives to the European citizens and an attractive utopia. T…
This research explores the interplay of corporate strategy and government policy as related to the English-language pay-per-view film services offered by Viewer's Choice Canada to digital cable subscribers in eastern Canada (i.e., Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces). Specifically, it traces the historical development of pay television policy and analyzes the pay-per-view industry's str…