Foreword / Peter McLaren -- Introduction: Towards conditions of our own making / Lee Artz, Steve Macek, and Dana Cloud -- On the material and the dialectic : towards a class analysis of communication / Lee Artz -- Change happens : materialist dialectics and communication studies / Dana L. Cloud -- Media, culture, and society : the relevance of Marx's dialectical methoe / Deepa Kumar -- Revisiting the political economy of communication / Vincent Mosco -- Contradictions in capitalist media practices / Colin Sparks -- Lost in translation : the distortion of egemonia / Fabiana Woodfin -- The convictions of reflexivity : Pierre Bourdieu and Marxist theory in communication / David W. Park -- Toward a political economy of culture : capitalism and communication in the in the sixteen century / Lora Taub-Pervizpour -- Communication and contradiction : living history and the sport pages of the Daily worker / Susan C. Leggett -- Corporate culture versus public education and democracy : a call for critical pedagogy / Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux -- From the weapon of criticism to criticism by weapons : critical communication scholarship, Marxism, and political activism / Stephen H. Macek.