Marxism and communication studies : the point is to change it

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Title:

Marxism and communication studies : the point is to change it

Author:

Artz, Lee.

ISBN:

9780820481265

9780820488257

Publication Information:

New York : P. Lang, c2006.

Physical Description:

x, 258 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Media and culture ; v. 8

Media & culture (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 8.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Socialism and culture.

Socialism and society.

Communication -- Social aspects.

Communication -- Political aspects.

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Mass media -- Political aspects.

Dialectical materialism.

Added Author:

Artz, Lee.

Macek, Steve, 1965-

Cloud, Dana L.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0611/2006015426.html

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Summary

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.