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MTV: 360° of the industrial production of culture
Author(s) -
Rosati Clayton
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00266.x
Subject(s) - production (economics) , materialism , sociology , mass media , space (punctuation) , mass culture , capital (architecture) , media culture , politics , division of labour , fordism , symbolic capital , economic geography , media studies , social science , political science , business , economics , advertising , economy , epistemology , geography , anthropology , computer science , law , philosophy , archaeology , macroeconomics , operating system
A political economic analysis of mass media and culture is conspicuously absent in geography. The symbolic or textual emphasis of most materialist media theories presents media simply as a struggle over images, omitting space from the equation altogether, except in metaphorical terms. This paper presents a framework for understanding the conditions under which culture is increasingly produced by media corporations for the global accumulation of capital. The paper first discusses the importance of thinking about the production of culture as the ‘industrial production of culture’ and its relationship to the media as part of the capitalist division of labour. Second, it explores more fully the spatial and material limits to the industrial production of culture through mass media. Lastly, it uses MTV and its ‘360°’ initiative as a critical case study to describe the role of a particularly successful industrial cultural producer within the spatial division of labour, as an advertising platform for international marketing.