[Marxism] Re: New Book on Marxism and Communication Studies

["Stephen Macek" <shmacek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This book might be of interest to some on this list. 

Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is to Change It
Edited by Lee Artz, Steve Macek and Dana Cloud.
Peter Lang, June 24, 2006
ISBN: 0820481262
Paper Back: $29.95

Much of the contemporary research being done in the fields of communication
studies, media studies and rhetoric owes an enormous intellectual and
political debt to Marxist theory.  Concepts such as "ideology," "hegemony,"
"class" and "dialectics" are absolutely central to current debates in the
communications discipline. Yet most communication scholars rarely
acknowledge their reliance on Marxist-derived ideas or think systematically
about the relationship of their work to the historical materialist critique of
capitalism. 

This important new collection, featuring essays by leading scholars and
practitioners, provides a much-needed overview and assessment of MarxismÂs
significance to contemporary thinking in communication and media studies.
Contributors demonstrate how a Marxist perspective can be usefully applied
to specific case studies in communication, providing valuable insights and
understandings that are not obtainable using other approaches. Contributors
include Lee Artz, Dana Cloud, Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux, Deepa
Kumar, Susan C. Leggett, Steve Macek, Peter McLaren , Vincent Mosco, David
Park, Colin Sparks, Lora Taub-Pervizpour, and Fabiana Woodfin.

For more information, please visit the book's webpage:
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=68126&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1



Steve Macek
Assistant Professor
Speech Communication
North Central College
30 N. Brainard 
Naperville, IL 60540-4690
Phone: 630-637-5369
Fax: 630-637-5140

Out now from U of MN Press:
Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City
ISBN:  ISBN 0-8166-4361-X       
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/macek_urban.html

Webpage: http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/
Blog: http://stevemacek.blogspot.com/

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