Robert McChesney once decried the "sad state of political economy" in U.S. media studies, and claimed that scholars had made a "molehill out of a mountain." We'd taken the mountainous problem of media ownership and capitalist culture and dismissed it as inessential, or insurmountable, in a digital world full of subversive texts, active fans, resistant practices, and global circulation.

XREF: Connects to political economy of media critiques and contemporary digital culture studies.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 30