February 20, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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As we continue reading Gilbert’s Anticapitalism and Culture, we are attempting to deepen our understanding how political-economic changes affect the cultural conditions for social (and environmental) change. Much of this entry will review the political-economic shifts we examined in class … Continue reading
February 14, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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The following is a glossary of terms used in Gilbert’s Anticapitalism and Culture. In the comments, we will add other terms and key words as these arise throughout the course.
February 14, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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After exploring new (digital/social/emergent) media through a variety of media studies lenses, we began looking at the possibilities these media present for democratic political projects. This week we begin our next theoretical turn: into the interdisciplinary field of “cultural studies.” … Continue reading
February 8, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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Since this topic was a popular one, I thought I’d link to an article that usefully contextualizes Habermas’s notion of the public sphere within current research in sociology of media. Many of the issues that came up in our discussion … Continue reading
February 3, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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With this week’s readings we move to another meaning of “media ecology” — something that Adbusters magazine calls the “mental environment” and that law professor James Boyle calls the “information environment,” the “informational commons,” the “commons of facts and ideas,” … Continue reading