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China's economic reforms and opening to the world since 1978 have profoundly changed the operation and function of Chinese television. Following the accelerated market reforms from 1992, the production of Chinese TV programmes has become increasingly driven by ratings and orient…

The main objective of this thesis was to examine three key questions concerning the political economy of digital broadcasting. First, the concept of digital broadcasting and its regulatory issues were investigated. Following the review of the related theories, I proposed a polit…

This thesis is an examination of the development of régionalisation, marketisation and commercialisation in contemporary Chinese broadcasting, focusing in particular on the turn to tabloid content and tabloid programming formats and styles. It argues that tabloidisation is the m…

Despite their continuing importance to the UK economy and their employment of significant numbers of workers from a range of professions, the utilities have received scant attention from critical scholars of work. This neglect represents a missed opportunity to examine the impac…