Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies

by Steiner, Linda; Christians, Clifford

• ISBN13: 9780252076954
• ISBN10: 0252076958
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This volume brings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. Taking into account the vicissitudes of political, social, and cultural issues, the contributors engage deeply with the evolving understanding of critical concepts such as history, community, culture, identity, politics, ethics, globalization, and technology. The essays address the extent to which these concepts have been useful to scholars, policy makers, and citizens, as well as the ways they must be rethought and reconsidered if they are to continue to be viable. Each essay considers what is known and understood about these concepts. The essays give particular attention to how relevant ideas, themes, and terms were developed, elaborated, and deployed in the work of James W. Carey, the "founding father" of cultural studies in the United States. The contributors map how these important concepts, including Carey's own work with them, have evolved over time and how these concepts intersect. The result is a coherent volume that redefines the still-emerging field of critical cultural studies. Contributors are Stuart Allan, Jack Zeljko Bratich, Clifford Christians, Norman Denzin, Mark Fackler, Robert Fortner, Lawrence Grossberg, Joli Jensen, Steve Jones, John Nerone, Lana Rakow, Quentin J. Schultze, Linda Steiner, Angharad N. Valdivia, Catherine Warren, Frederick Wasser, and Barbie Zelizer.

Author Biography

Linda Steiner is a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland and the coauthor of Women and Journalism.

 

Clifford Christians is Sandage Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coauthor of Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Working the Hyphens in Critical-Cultural Conversations	p. ix
Contexts
History: Looking for the Subject of Communication History	p. 3
Education: Critical Pedagogy	p. 17
Space: The Possibilities and Limits of the Conversation Model	p. 26
Religion: Faith in Cultural Studies	p. 40
Community: Community without Propinquity	p. 54
Culture
Culture: James W. Carey and the Conversation of Culture	p. 73
Popular Culture: Asking the Right Questions	p. 88
Oral Culture: Oral Culture as Antidote to Terror and Ennui	p. 103
Ritual: The Dark Continent of Journalistic Ritual	p. 115
Identity: The Politics of Identity Work	p. 128
Consequences
Professionalism: Journalism without Professional Journalists?	p. 145
Politics: Media Power, Status Politics, and Partisanship	p. 158
Ethics: Communication Ethics in Postnarrative Terms	p. 173
The Public: Philosophical Foundations and Distortions in the Quest for Civitas	p. 187
Technology: The Digital Sublimation of the Electrical Sublime	p. 199
Globalization: Counterglobalization and Other Rituals against Empire	p. 212
Epilogue: How Scholarship Matters	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 239
Works Cited	p. 241
Editors and Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 266
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