Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies

Table of Contents

Introduction: Working the Hyphens in Critical-Cultural Conversations Linda St einer a nd Cl if f or d Chr ist ia ns ix Part I Contexts History Looking for the Subject of Communication History John Ner one 3 Education Critical Pedagogy Nor ma n K. Denzin 17 Space The Possibilities and Limits of the Conversation Model Angha r a d N. Va l divia 26 Religion Faith in Cultural Studies Quent in J. Schul t ze 40 Community Community without Propinquity Linda St einer 54 Contents Part II Culture Culture James W. Carey and the Conversation of Culture Lawr ence Gr ossber g 73 Popular Culture Asking the Right Questions Jol i Jensen 88 Oral Culture Oral Culture as Antidote to Terror and Ennui Ma r k Fack l er 103 Ritual The Dark Continent of Journalistic Ritual Cat her ine A. W a r r en 115 Identity The Politics of Identity Work La na F. Ra kow 128 Part III Consequences Professionalism Journalism without Professional Journalists? St ua r t Al l a n 145 Politics Media Power, Status Politics, and Partisanship Fr eder ick Wa sser 158 Ethics Communication Ethics in Postnarrative Terms Cl if f or d Chr ist ia ns 173 The Public Philosophical Foundations and Distortions in the Quest for Civitas Rober t For t ner 187 Technology The Digital Sublimation of the Electrical Sublime St ev en Jones 199 Globalization Counterglobalization and Other Rituals against Empire Jack Br at ich 212 Epilogue How Scholarship Matters Ba r bie Zel izer 227 Acknowledgments 239 Works Cited 241 Editors and Contributors 261 Index 266 ...