[Web] surfing mimics a postmodern, deconstructionist perspective by undermining the authority of texts...no longer awed by received authority...in the form of text, graphics, music or code...[web surfers will use them] for their own purposes.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998), Philosophy and Social Hope (1999), and (with Gianni Vatti
This paper is taken from Chapter One of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy (2006)...It argues that there exists a 'genealogy' of ideas that amount to a tradition of radical media thought. And so on.
Radical mass media criticism has over the last decades frequently been reduced to a caricature of itself and consigned to the margins of media analysis. It has been given short shrift, misjudged as 'simplistic' and labelled 'discredited'...
Media reform is required to enable dissident voices to be democratically heard. This paper examines the complex interface between mass media & social movements, and collective actions to improve activism's media coverage.
journal of radical media thinking and critical practice, a forum for all those deeply concerned about a mass media that's represented a controlling elite...
ASN would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet... to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society... an infrastructure for trusted relationships across the [web]...enabling innovation in democratic governance, alternative
Modern liberal societies have weak collective identities. Postmodern elites, especially in Europe, feel that they have evolved beyond identities defined by religion and nation. But if our societies cannot assert positive liberal values, they may be challe