Joan Pedro-Carañana is a associate professor in the Department of Journalism and New Media at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Rodrigo Gómez is a professor in the Department of Communication at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa, Mexico and and a Maria Zambrano Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Thomas F. Corrigan is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, USA.

Francisco Sierra Caballero is a senior researcher and professor of communication theory in the Department of Journalism at the University of Seville, Spain.

Foreword Janet Wasko IntroductionThomas F. Corrigan and Francisco Sierra Caballero, Rodrigo Gómez,and Joan Pedro-CarañanaPart I: EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION IntroductionThomas F. Corrigan 1. Rethinking "method" in the political economy of media and communication: A realist perspective Thomas F. Corrigan 2. A historical-structural approach to media research Enrique E. Sánchez-Ruiz 3. Internet policy research: Critical epistemological and methodological considerations Robin Mansell 4. Who knows? Feminist epistemologies, gendered labor, and a political economy of communicationMicky Lee Part II: INSTITUTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IntroductionRodrigo Gómez 5. With history at its core: Making a case for historical methods in critical political economy Mandy Tröger 6. Political Economy of Communication and Network AnalysisRodrigo Gómez and Ben Birkinbine 7. Audiovisual diversity and subscription video-on-demand services: Mapping the territory in SpainJosep Pedro and Luis A. Albornoz 8. Measuring media pluralism in informative TV programs through a multidimensional multi-scope instrument Chiara Sáez Baeza 9. The framework of analysis as integrative scaffolding for our research Argelia Muñoz Larroa 10. Political economy and critical studies of advertising and media industriesJonathan Hardy Part III: ANALYSIS OF IDEOLOGY, SOCIO-ANALYSIS AND PRAXIS IntroductionJoan Pedro-Carañana 11. Quantitative and qualitative content analysis in political economy research: A systematic review of strategies, methods, and techniques Florian Zollmann 12. Elite news content (still) matters now more than ever before: Social movements, social media, elite news media, and the media dependence model Andrew Kennis 13. The dialectical model of social mediation and its methods for researching the social production of communicationJoan Pedro-Carañana 14. Structure meets agency: Political economy and ethnography Olga Lucía Sorzano and Toby Miller 15. Participatory action research in political economy: Researchers' commitment to communication democratization and social justice Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho 16. A methodological proposal for the analysis of the Political Economy of Communication from an intersectional feminist perspectiveM. Cruz Tornay-Márquez Part IV: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EMERGING CHALLENGES IntroductionJoan Pedro-Carañana 17. Artificial intelligence and technological accelerationism: A critique of cybernetic ideology Francisco Sierra and Daniela Inés Monje