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government subsidies to commercial media archive/dissertation

There are numerous other important direct and indirect subsidies that the government provides commercial media [...] First, advertising is condoned and encouraged by government policies and regulations. Allowing businesses to write off their advertising expenditures as a business expense on their t…

—p.78 Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy How Can the Political Economy of Communication help us understand the Internet? (63) by Robert W. McChesney
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technology and political economy archive/dissertation

In the meantime, the most intensive efforts to promote and experiment with practical post-capitalist alternatives are coming from those on the left who are intensely focused on technology. Efforts that came out of the Free Culture movement were primary elements of Podemos, and have combined with ot…

Law and Political Economy The Role of Technology in Political Economy: Part 3 by Yochai Benkler
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technology's power in structuring social relations archive/dissertation topic/open-source

But the driving assumption was that (a) contrary to both SBTC and its neighbors and Polanyi, technology was very much a function of institutions; (b) cutting edge innovation did not have to follow one narrow “most-efficiency creating” path, but that there was meaningful choice in how innovation pro…

The Role of Technology in Political Economy: Part 2 by Yochai Benkler