Neoliberalism, Media and the Political [electronic resource] /
Phelan, S.author.
Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile to politics, the book presents a critical theoretical argument supported by empirical illustrations from New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and the US.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Disfiguring Neoliberalism; Disfiguring neoliberalism; About this book; Some caveats; 1 Articulating Neoliberalism in Critical Media and Communication Studies; The political economy of neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and the political economy of media; Neoliberalism and cultural studies; Neoliberalism and governmentality studies; Neoliberal governmentality, subjectivity and media cultures; Critiquing the critique of neoliberalism; Recuperating neoliberalism as an object of critique
2 Neoliberal Discourse: Theory, History and TrajectoriesDiscourse theory and the political; The historical emergence of neoliberalism3; Antagonism, heterogeneity and ideology; Third way neoliberalism; 3 Neoliberal Logics and Field Theory; Neoliberal and neoliberalized logics; Media articulations; Neoliberal logics and media regimes; A field theory supplement; Conclusion; 4 Neoliberalism and Media Democracy: A Representative Anecdote from Post-Rogernomics New Zealand; Constructing neoliberalism: Media blind spots; The return of Brash as an empirical event
Neoliberalized media democracy: A representative anecdoteJournalism's anti-ideology ideology; Conclusion; 5 The Journalistic Habitus and the Realist Style; Neoliberalism and journalism: The standard argument and its limitations; Post-ideological neoliberalism; The journalistic habitus; Journalism, ideology and politics; Journalism and market realism; The crisis and the market realist style: The Irish Times's Stephen Collins; Absences and omissions; The semblance of a realist style; Anti-rhetorical rhetoric; The "common good" against the "vested interests"
Neoliberalization and the politics of the journalistic habitusConclusion; 6 Media Cultures, Anti-politics and the "Climategate" Affair; Politics, anti-politics and rational choice theory; Anti-politics and media cynicism; Previous research on climategate; Neoliberal logics and the initial media construction of the CRU scandal; Watts Up With That: Two days on8; James Delingpole at the Daily Telegraph; Conclusion; 7 Neoliberal Imaginaries, Press Freedom and the Politics of Leveson; Journalism and freedom of the press; Neoliberal freedom; Neoliberalism and the rhetoric of press freedom
From Leveson to the Royal CharterNeoliberal logics and the cultural politics of Leveson; The (socialist) state as the threat to freedom; Anti-politics and anti-collectivism; The fantasmatic Other(s); Conclusion; 8 Media Rituals and the Celtic Tiger: The Neoliberal Nation and its Transnational Circulation; Media rituals and banal neoliberalism; Bringing the Celtic Tiger into being; "The economy" as a social object; Media rituals and the Celtic Tiger; Transnational mediations; Bodhrans on Wall Street: The privatization of Eircom; Postscript: On the story of Irish recovery
Conclusion: The Possibility of a Radical Media Politics
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile to politics, the book presents a critical theoretical argument supported by empirical illustrations from New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and the US.
Political theory.
Communication.
Political science.
Social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Political Theory.
Media Studies.
Political Science.
Social Sciences, general.
Cultural Studies.