List of Tables and Figures

Foreword, Robert W. McChesney

About the Authors

Introduction, Savas Çoban

1. The Spectre of Marx, Michael Wayne
The Political Crisis
The Media Crisis
The Economic Crisis

2. Culture, Communication & Ideology = Forms of Work, Christian Fuchs
Introduction
Work/Communication-Dualism: Jürgen Habermas and Klaus Holzkamp on Communication and Work
Raymond Williams' Cultural Materialism
Cultural Production as a Form of Work
Communication as a Form of Work
Ideological Labour and Critical Work
Conclusion

3. Media Power and Class Power: Overplaying Ideology, David Miller
Media Power and Class Power
The Ideological Effect?
Gramsci to the Rescue?
Back to Marx
Democracy
Corporate Power and the Media
Corporate and Class Power Beyond the Media
Conclusion

4. The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction, John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
Brecht, the Frankfurt School, and the Concept of Cultural Apparatus
Mills, Thompson, and Williams
Toward a Wider Political Economy of Communication: The 1960s Critique
The Critique of Culture and the Media in the 1960s
The New Left and Communication: The 1960s and '70s and Today


5. The War Against Democracy in the UK, Nick Stevenson

6. Infamy and Indoctrination in American Media and Politics, Arthur Asa Berger
Practice
Theory

7. U.S. Media and the World, Gerald Sussman
Media and Popular Culture: The U.S. Transnational Power Context
American Media and Internal Colonization
The Future of Capitalist Media

8. The Evolving Business Models of Network News? Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Introduction
Network History
A Question of Complicity
Trends of Change in the New Millennium
Transitioning from Network to Post-Network Age
Conclusion

9. Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility in Media And Communication Industries, Marisol Sandoval
Introduction
Theories of CSR in Media and Communication Iindustries
Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility in Media and Communication Companies
Conclusion

10. Media Spectacle and the North African Arab Uprisings: Some Critical Reflections, Douglas Kellner
The Rise and Triumph of Media Spectacle
Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle
The North African Arab Uprisings
Sparks in Tunisia
Upheaval in Egypt
Tumult in the Arab World 2011: From the Arab Spring to Bloody, Summer, Fall and Winter
Concluding Comments

11. Turkey's 'War and Peace' The Kurdish Question and the Media, Savas Çoban
The Kurdish
Presentation and Perception Internationally
Presentation and Perception in the Turkish Media
The Kurdish Media
Conclusion

Epilogue: 'The Left' as Needed Ideology, Mandy Tröger

Index

This engaging collection examines the contradictory nature of the media, revealing it to be democracy's greatest asset and greatest threat.

Savas Çoban is an independent scholar, completing his PhD in the field of Radio-TV Communication. His works include the publications: Azinliklar ve Dil (Su Yayinlari 2005); Hegemonya Araci ve Ideolojik Aygit Olarak Medya (Parsömen Yayinlari 2013); Media's Role in the Socialist Era (Amani International Publishers 2013); Azinliklar, Ötekiler ve Medya (co-edited with Yasemin Inceoglu; Ayrinti Yayinlari 2014), and Medya ve Iktidar (co-edited with Esra Arsan; Evrensel Basim Yayin 2014).

Robert McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Political Economy of Media, Communication Revolution, The Problem of the Media, and Rich Media, Poor Democracy.