Journal•ISSN: 1479-5809
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Taylor & Francis
About: Critical Studies in Media Communication is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Sociology. It has an ISSN identifier of 1479-5809. Over the lifetime, 1022 publications have been published receiving 34659 citations. The journal is also known as: CSMC.
Topics: Politics, Sociology, Journalism, Narrative, News media
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TL;DR: The authors assesses Althusser's contribution to the reconceptualization of ideology and argue that these gains opened up a new perspective within Marxism, enabling a rethinking of ideology in a significantly different way.
Abstract: This essay attempts to assess Althusser's contribution to the reconceptualization of ideology. Rather than offering a detailed exegesis, the essay provides some general reflections on the theoretical gains flowing from Althusser's break with classical Marxist formulations of ideology. It argues that these gains opened up a new perspective within Marxism, enabling a rethinking of ideology in a significantly different way.
1,035 citations
TL;DR: The authors analyzes some of the controversies in the literature on media imperialism by drawing on two revised concepts: assymetrical interdependence as a more precise and complex way to frame the imperialism issues, and the idea of audiences actively searching for cultural proximity in cultural goods, as a way to reincorporate the role of audiences in the media imperialism debate.
Abstract: This paper analyzes some of the controversies in the literature on media imperialism by drawing on two revised concepts: the idea of assymetrical interdependence as a more precise and complex way to frame the imperialism issues, and the idea of audiences actively searching for cultural proximity in cultural goods, as a way to reincorporate the role of audiences in the media imperialism debate The focus is on limits imposed by dependence, growth in cultural industries, technological change, and reconceptualization of an active audience that is divided by class The study focuses on television flows vs national television production, on the primary case of Brazil, and on institutional and audience‐centered evidence
664 citations
TL;DR: This paper argued that the notion of "profession" may not offer the most fruitful way of examining community among American journalists and proposed viewing journalists as members of an interpretive community instead, one united by its shared discourse and collective interpretations of key public events.
Abstract: This article suggests that the notion of “profession” may not offer the most fruitful way of examining community among American journalists. It proposes viewing journalists as members of an interpretive community instead, one united by its shared discourse and collective interpretations of key public events. The article applies the frame of the interpretive community to journalistic discourse about two events central for American journalists—Watergate and McCarthyism. Journalists have generated collective interpretations of both events by capitalizing on the double temporal position they occupy in regard to them. This situation of “doing double time” allows journalists to interpret an event at the time of its unfolding as well as at the time of its retelling. This suggests that journalists routinely generate shared meaning about journalism by capitalizing on practices overlooked by the frame of the profession, and underscores the need for alternative frames through which to conceptualize journalism in all...
644 citations
TL;DR: The authors explores the changing character of public discourse in the Age of Twitter and highlights how Twitter privileges discourse that is simple, impulsive, and uncivil, and concludes with a brief reflection on the end times: a posttruth, post-news, President Trump, Twitter-world.
Abstract: This essay explores the changing character of public discourse in the Age of Twitter. Adopting the perspective of media ecology, the essay highlights how Twitter privileges discourse that is simple, impulsive, and uncivil. This effect is demonstrated through a case study of Donald J. Trump's Twitter feed. The essay concludes with a brief reflection on the end times: a post-truth, post-news, President Trump, Twitter-world.
421 citations
TL;DR: This paper argued that the inherent democracy of conversation gives rise to politically democratic norms and institutions, and argued that conversation that serves democracy is distinguished not by egalitarianism but by norm-governedness and publicness, not by spontaneity but by civility, and not by its priority or superiority to print and broadcast media but by its necessary dependence on them.
Abstract: Inspired by the writings of John Dewey, among others, thinking in communication studies has often taken face‐to‐face conversation to be the heart of democratic life. But face‐to‐face conversation has been as much honored in aristocracies as in democracies and there are, in fact, two distinctive and contrasting ideals of conversation—the sociable conversation and the problem‐solving conversation. Conversation that serves democracy is distinguished not by egalitarianism but by norm‐governedness and public‐ness, not by spontaneity but by civility, and not by its priority or superiority to print and broadcast media but by its necessary dependence on them. An argument is offered that institutions and norms of democracy give rise to democratic conversations rather than that the inherent democracy of conversation gives rise to politically democratic norms and institutions.
413 citations