In addition to and /or in articulation with the conference sub-themes, the Political Economy Section also welcomes submissions on: · Political economy of digital broadcasting, telecommunications, live streaming and mobile communications, · Political economy of audiences, · Political economy of journalism, · Political economy of gender and feminism, · Political economy of big data and surveillance, · Political economy and climate change, · Moral economies, gift economies and free culture/free economy, · Media capital and financialization of corporate media, · Civil society, public goods and media activism · Communication/mediation of markets and finance. · Power, media policy and regulation, · Media, citizenship, cultural right and democracy, · De-commodification, de-marketization or de-convergence in communications · Cultural industries, cultural economy and diversity, · Cultural and creative labor in the context of digitization and global capitalism, · Continuing crisis (financial, moral, others), · Communication experiences of the social media activism around the world (Brazil, Hong Kong, Colombia, Malaysia, Greece, Indonesia, Thailand, Mexico, Taiwan, Spain, Turkey etc.) as counter hegemonic social agents · Global capital and media power spatialization · Free trade agreements, copyright and communication and cultural policies.