Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics [electronic resource] /
Dahlberg, L.editor.
Phelan, S.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction / Sean Phelan and Lincoln Dahlberg -- Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions / Lincoln Dahlberg -- From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies / Oliver Marchart -- What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign  / Jeremy Gilbert -- Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' Expenses Scandal  / Wei-yuan Chang & Jason Glyn --  The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory / Sean Phelan --  Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory / Jack Zeljko Bratich --  Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements / Natalie Fenton -- Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media Politics / Jon Simons --  Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials / Peter Dahlgren.
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.
Laclau, Ernesto, 1935-2014.
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.
Political science.
Communication.
Cultural policy.
Performing arts.
Political Science.
Communication Studies.
Media Studies.
Cultural Policy and Politics.
Performing Arts.