Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Contributors......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction......Page 12
2 Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions......Page 52
3 From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies......Page 75
4 What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign......Page 93
5 Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs\' Expenses Scandal......Page 117
6 The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau\'s Discourse Theory with Bourdieu\'s Field Theory......Page 139
7 Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory......Page 165
8 Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements......Page 189
9 Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau\'s Political Theory and Media Politics......Page 212
10 Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials......Page 233
Index......Page 261