Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is to Change Itby Lee Artz
Pub. Date: 01/28/2006
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
There is a timely and urgent need for a reasoned dialogue reassessing how Marxism can advance the study of human communication and transform the social world in which it is embedded. Indeed, ongoing world-historical events - including the vigorously organized market globalization, the corresponding insurgent global anticorporate movement, and the conflicts… See more details below
There is a timely and urgent need for a reasoned dialogue reassessing how Marxism can advance the study of human communication and transform the social world in which it is embedded. Indeed, ongoing world-historical events - including the vigorously organized market globalization, the corresponding insurgent global anticorporate movement, and the conflicts engendered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq - have underscored the importance of a thorough critique of global capitalism and its telecommunication technologies and practices.
This important new collection, featuring essays by leading scholars and practitioners, provides a much-needed overview and assessment of Marxism’s significance to contemporary thinking in communication and media studies. Contributors demonstrate how a Marxist perspective can be usefully applied to specific case studies in communication, providing valuable insights and understandings that are not obtainable using other approaches.
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Table of Contents
|Introduction : toward conditions of our own making||1|
|1||On the material and the dialectic : toward a class analysis of communication||5|
|2||Change happens : materialist dialectics and communication studies||53|
|3||Media, culture, and society : the relevance of Marx's dialectical method||71|
|4||Revisiting the political economy of communication||87|
|5||Contradictions in capitalist media practices||111|
|6||Lost in translation : the distortion of Egemonia||133|
|7||The convictions of reflexivity : Pierre Bourdieu and Marxist theory in communication||157|
|8||Toward a political economy of culture : capitalism and communication in the sixteenth century||173|
|9||Communication and contradiction : living history and the sport pages of the Daily Worker||191|
|10||Corporate culture versus public education and democracy : a call for critical pedagogy||203|
|11||From the weapon of criticism to criticism by weapons : critical communication scholarship, Marxism, and political activism||217|
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