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9780230276994

Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230276994

  • ISBN10:

    0230276997

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-11-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

A systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory -- as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe- through an engagement with major approaches to critical media politics and a range of issues in contemporary media politics.

Author Biography

Lincoln Dahlberg is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research is focused on media politics, critical theory, and digital democracy. He has published extensively in these areas, including as co-editor of Radical Democracy and the Internet (Palgrave, 2007). Sean Phelan is Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has published mainly in the areas of critical media politics and journalism studies, including several essays informed by discourse theory. He has a particular research interest in exploring the relationship between critical political theory and media studies.

Table of Contents

Note on Contributors
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction; S.Phelan &L.Dahlberg
Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions; L.Dahlberg
From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies; O.Marchart
What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign; J.Gilbert
Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' Expenses Scandal; Wei-yuan Chang & J.Glynos
The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory; S.Phelan
Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory; J.Zeljko Bratich
Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements; N.Fenton
Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media Politics; J.Simons
Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials; P.Dahlgren
Index

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