The political economies of media and the transformation of the global media industries / Dwayne Winseck -- Principal ongoing mutations of cultural and informational industries / Bernard Miege -- Media ownership, oligarchies, and globalization: media concentration in South America / Guillermo Mastrini and Martin Becerra -- Media as creative industries: conglomeration and globalization as accumulation strategies in an age of digital media / Terry Flew -- The structure and dynamics of communications business networks in an era of convergence: mapping the global networks of the information business / Amelia Arsenault -- Hard jobs in Hollywood: how concentration in distribution affects the production side of the media entertainment industry / Susan Christopherson -- Financialization and the "crisis of the media": the rise and fall of (some) media conglomerates in Canada / Dwayne Winseck -- Deconvergence and deconsolidation in the global media industries: the rise and fall of (some) media conglomerates / Dal Yong Jin -- Navigational media: the political economy of online traffic / Elizabeth Van Couvering -- The contemporary World Wide Web: social medium or new space of accumulation? / Christian Fuchs -- Running on empty? The uncertain financial futures of public service media in the contemporary media policy environment / Peter A. Thompson -- Mediation, financialization, and the global financial crisis: an inverted political economy perspective / Aeron Davis -- The wizards of Oz: peering behind the curtain on the relationship between central banks and the business media / Marc-Andre Pigeon.

The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.