Envisioning Media Power On Capital and Geographies of Television

Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy. It uses theories of political economy as the basis for a comparative empirical examination of the UK and New Zealand television markets, while closely considering these markets' respective relationships with the U.S. market and its globally influential media corporations. In fleshing out this geographical perspective, Brett Christophers critically addresses the power to produce, reproduce, and extract profit from territorialized media markets. To understand such powers, Christophers examines processes of creation and dissemination of industry knowledge, structures of industry governance, and the locational characteristics of television's operational economy.

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