传播政治经济学由于非主流的精神姿态和反潮流的理论取向在传播研究领域中内独树一帜。从元理论层面来说，传播政治经济学的哲学基础是马克思主义，传播即控制是其传播本体论，唯物主义是其世界观，现实主义是其认识论，传播价值观是公平优先于效率，人性观是消极受众观，实践观是学术改造世界，方法论是质量并行，体现了宽广的知识视野、深厚的价值关切和细腻的理论情怀，值得我们反复研读。

Political Economy of Communication is a special academic school in the field of communication studies because its non-mainstream spiritual stand and against the current theoretical orientation. In the meta theory level, its philosophy base is Marxism, the ontology is communication is control, its world view is materialism, its epistemology is realism, its value system is justice precedes over efficiency, its human nature value is negative audience, its practice value is academics changes the world, its methodology is combining quantitative and qualitative research, which reflects broad intellectual perspective, deep value concern and subtle theoretical affection, which deserve us to read repeatedly.