Eroding the market’s hidden hand
Toward a Post-Capitalist media system
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 282-285 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcaf045 |
| OpenAlex | W7117355102 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Media-related problems facing democratic societies around the world today often stem from various kinds of market failures and structural limitations endemic to all capitalist media systems. Yet, the capitalist logics at the root of these problems largely escape critical analysis in communication research. Working against such “capitalist media realism,” this article begins to interrogate these logics and provides a preliminary framework for gradually eroding them in favor of a less capitalist and more democratic media system
Capitalism · Capitalist system · Democracy · Democratic system · Root (linguistics · Media Influence and Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |