Master 2025/2026

Critical Political Economy of Media

Type: Compulsory course (Contemporary Media Research)

Delivered by: Institute of Media

When: 1 year, 1, 2, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Переяслов Алексей Денисович

Language: English

Contact hours: 60

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Critical Political Economy of Media course offers students a perspective on media and communication from the standpoint of the production, accumulation and concentration of capital in the broadest sense. The main emphasis throughout the discipline is on the ‘classical’ Marxist critique of political economy, but this is not the exclusive theoretical perspective offered within the discipline. Students will be introduced to various socio-economic aspects of the emergence, development and dynamics of modern media (mass media, Internet, technological platforms and infrastructures) as economic agents and/or objects of economic interest.