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Luis Nitrihual Valdebenito
Universidad de La Frontera
Chile
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Claudio Ulloa Galindo
Universidad de Los Lagos
Chile
Biography
Vol 4 No 16 (2022): Political Economy of Communication and Cultural Studies | Poverty, Hunger and Migration, Research articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ricd.4.16.8421
Submitted: 22-04-2022 Accepted: 31-05-2022 Published: 06-07-2022
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In this article we examine the postulates of the political economy of communication as a discipline that seeks to understand the processes of transformation and permanence of media systems embedded in capitalism. We especially address the postulates of Vincent Mosco. From these postulates we address the interdisciplinary complementarity that occurs with discursive studies, which allow us to read social reality from the materiality and opacity of language, specifically through the study of discursive hegemonies. This complementarity makes it possible to escape materialist reductionism, on the one hand, and culturalist excess, on the other, enriching social analyzes thanks to the convergence of theoretical contributions such as those of Antonio Gramsci and Cornelius Castoriadis, among others.