In this article, David Buckingham addresses the challenges media educators face in dealing with postmodern media culture. Buckingham begins by outlining the nature of contemporary developments in children's media environments and how these relate to broader changes in their social status. He argues that these developments represent a fundamental challenge to the modernist project of media education, with its emphasis on the production of critical consumers. Buckingham then moves on to draw on his own empirical studies of media classrooms in the United Kingdom. He deals first with the issue of identity formation and the implications of current changes for teaching about representation. Second, he considers the role of play, particularly in relation to students' media production, and the potential limitations of a more ludic, or playful, approach. Buckingham then addresses the difficulties posed by students' use of parody, both ideologically and in terms of learning. Finally, he considers a more comprehensi...

Media Education and the End of the Critical Consumer

This article examines the ethical framing of employment in contemporary human resource management (HRM). Using Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and classical critical notions of reification, I contrast recognition and reifying stances on labor. The recognition approach embeds work in its emotive and social particu-larity, positively affirming the basic dignity of social actors. Reifying views, by contrast, exhibit a forgetfulness of recognition, removing action from its existential and social moorings, and imagining workers as bundles of discrete resources or capacities. After discussing why reification is a problem, I stress that recognition and reifi-cation embody different ethical standpoints with regards to organizational practices. Thus, I argue paradoxically that many current HRM best practices can be maintained while cultivating an attitude of recognition. If reification is a type of forgetting, cultivating a recognition attitude involves processes of ''remembering'' to foster work relations that reinforce employee dignity.

Recognition, Reification, and Practices of Forgetting: Ethical Implications of Human Resource Management

Abstract As the world rapidly becomes a different place for migrants and non-migrants alike, this article asks whether transnational migration scholars have an adequate conceptual toolkit to address the temporal dimensions of mobility regimes. The article notes the way those who initiated the transnational framework for the study of migration conceptualised temporality, critiques the failure of subsequent researchers to adequately address the rapidly altering conditions of migration and offers a concept of multiscalar conjunctural transformation. A multiscalar conjunctural approach allows researchers to address both time and space. It highlights emergent processes of capital accumulation by dispossession and the ways in which such processes are culturally, politically, socially and spatially constituted as people around the world respond to multiple forms of displacement and reconstitute their lives.

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Theorising Transnational Migration in Our Times:: A multiscalar temporal perspective

High Fashion and Pop Fashion: The Symbolic Production of Fashion in Le Monde and The Guardian

Recent years have witnessed a broad series of elite efforts to withdraw legal rights extended to individuals over the preceding several decades. In closely examining two of these efforts, the tort and habeas corpus reform movements, it is argued that reform advocates have utilized a similar narrative framework to make the case for reform. By constructing plaintiffs as "undeserving," due to their improper use of the legal system to redress harms for which they are responsible, and by using anecdotes designed to advance these hegemonic constructions, the foundation is laid for the withdrawal of individual access to law.

Closing the courthouse door: constructing undeservingness in the tort and habeas corpus reform movements

rillard and a selection from his De La SÃ©duction. But the most incisive word here comes not from Baudrillard but from WJ.T. Mitchell, whose \"Iconology and Ideology: Panofsky, Althusser, and the Scene of Recognition\" concludes this collection. As Mitchell reminds us, iconology must be redirected toward a critical recognition of its own naturalizing processes, its ideological investments in the practice of representations; ideology, at the same time, must confront its own iconologies, or the very images through which it makes its claim to the status of a science of ideas.

Susan E. Hawkins

Papers

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (review)