[ecrea] New Book: Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics

*With the usual apologies for cross-posting

This recently published book might be of interest to some people on the 
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*Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics*

Edited by Lincoln Dahlberg and Sean Phelan

Palgrave Macmillan

Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics offers a systematic 
examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory 
and critical media politics. The volume interrogates discourse theory -- 
as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe -- through an 
engagement with major approaches to critical media politics, including 
autonomist Marxism, Bourdieuian field theory, cultural studies, 
Habermasian public sphere theory, and semiotic theory. Contributors draw 
from a range of perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds to critically 
explore key theoretical issues in media politics, including the 
relationship between media practices and political practices, discourse 
and materiality, discourse and institutions, discourse and affect, the 
media and mediality, media and radical democracy, and the politics of 
new social movements. The book concludes with a chapter by leading 
international media studies scholar Peter Dahlgren, which in light of 
the book's contributions assesses the value of discourse theory to a 
critical media politics.

*List of Chapters*

Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction; S.Phelan 
& L.Dahlberg

Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions; L.Dahlberg

From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept 
of the Political in Communication Studies; O.Marchart

What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the 
Materiality of the Sign; J.Gilbert

Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' 
Expenses Scandal; Wei-yuan Chang & J.Glynos

The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's 
Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory; S.Phelan

Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory; J.Zeljko 
Bratich

Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New 
Social Movements; N.Fenton

Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media 
Politics; J.Simons

Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and 
Potentials; P.Dahlgren

For further details and free download of the introduction, see:

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=416089

Sean Phelan (PhD)

Senior Lecturer

School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing

Massey University

PO Box 756

Wellington

Aotearoa New Zealand

Room: 5E07

Phone:  +64 4 801 5799 ext 62508

Fax:  +64 4 801 2693

E-mail: (s.phelan /at/ massey.ac.nz) <mailto:(s.phelan /at/ massey.ac.nz)>