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Civil crisis, media, & the future of hegemony

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 12, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a fairly straightforward narrative about media and cultural hegemony in the United States that most scholarly observers have come to largely agree on (with the usual spectrum of variations in emphasis), but that more of the public ought to be aware of. It accounts for how we got here, into this situation where media […]

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Network propaganda, American style

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just begun teaching a media course, entitled Media Ecologies and Cultural Politics, which I designed several years ago but have revised this year to focus on the issues of our current moment: the upcoming election, the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis of racial justice, and what some have called the “crisis of information.” Preparing for […]

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The Epistemically Challenged States of America

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 2, 2019 | 7 Comments »

Or, Why Ukraine- and Russia- literacy should now be mandatory studies for every voting American One could start with another question: Why are both the politics of climate change and politics in general so polarized these days? Political polarization, after all, remains the main complaint of Americans, and it has made it impossible to make […]

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