Las industrias de la información y de la cultura en Rusia: Entre mercancía e instrumento

Abstract

The aim of this article is to show the degree of commercial exploitation, starting out from an analysis of the structure of the media and culture industries. Since ten years ago, the discourse on globalisation and on the commercial exploitation of the Russian economy has characterised national and international political life; a discourse that, far from attracting foreign investors, has put them off. In the classical industries, the transition from a planned economy towards a market economy has not implied changes at the level of production (technology, procedures and, above all, consumption are the same), but in the field of the media we are witnessing an important reorientation at the level of contents and aims of production, and changes at the level of consumption.