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Conceptualizing the Global Economic Crisis in Popular Communication Research

In a series of short exploratory essays, this special issue of Popular Communication examines the impact of the global financial crisis and recession on different aspects of global and regional media and cultural industries, changing practices of media production, as well as media consumption, and the interplay of economic challenges and technological change.