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About David Hesmondhalgh

David Hesmondhalgh is the author of The Cultural Industries (Sage Publications). He works in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University in the UK.

Articles by David Hesmondhalgh

Thursday 29th November

Ownership is only part of the media picture

Both McChesney’s and Compaine’s views of media ownership are incomplete and reductive. The complex relationships between owners and publics, and the space for anti-conformism even within popular culture, require a flexible understanding that avoids the pitfalls either of monolithism or complacency.
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