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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Editor: Bob Ivie, Indiana University, USA
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14791420.asp



 Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies was a new journal for 2004, publishing scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on social, political, and cultural practices from the standpoint of communication. It promotes critical reflection on the requirements of a more democratic culture by giving attention to subjects such as, but not limited to, class, race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality, polity, public sphere, nation, environment, and globalization. Essays are selected to be academically sound, rhetorically self-reflexive, intellectually innovative, and conceptually relevant to democratic concerns in their orientation toward communication and culture. Collectively, they analyze historical contexts, material and economic conditions, institutional settings, political initiatives, practices of resistance, and/or the theoretical significance of discursive formations in everyday life. In addition to research essays, CCCS publishes one or more reviews of major new books in each issue. It is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.

CCCS is an international journal, with a third of the editorial board, and a third of submissions originating outside of the US. Read more about the aims and scope of the journal in the Editorial by Bob Ivie - What are we about?

Articles appearing in volume one include (click on titles for abstracts):

Doug Kellner, The media and the crisis of democracy in the age of Bush-2
Henry Giroux, Cultural studies, public pedagogy, and the responsibility of intellectuals
Barbie Zelizer, When facts, truth, and reality are God-terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies
Thomas G. Palaima, The Texas professoriate and public political discourse before and after 9/11
Josh Greenberg and Graham Knight, Framing sweatshops: Nike, global production, and the American news media

For all article titles and abstracts from volume one, click through the 'Table of Contents' on the journal's home page - www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14791420.asp.

Forthcoming articles include:

Slavko Splichal, Manufacturing the (In)visible: Power to Communicate, Power to Silence
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Agency: Promiscuous and Protean
Sal Humphreys, Productive Players: Online Computer Games' Challenge to Conventional Media Forms
Kristy Best, Rethinking the Globalization Movement: Toward a Cultural Theory of Contemporary Democracy and Communication
Michael Butterworth, Ritual in the 'Church of Baseball': Suppressing the Discourse of Democracy after 9/11
Deepa Kumar, Axis of Deception: Strategies of Information Management during the 2003 Iraq War
Oscar Giner, On the Death of Marlon Brando
John Sloop, Riding in Cars Between Men
Laura Stengrim, Negotiating Postmodern Democracy, Political Activisim, and Knowledge Production: Indymedia's Grassroots and e-Savvy Answer to Media Oligopoly
Rona Tamiko Halualani et al., Between the Structural and the Personal: Situated Sense-Makings of 'Race'
Daniel Makagon, Sonic Earthquakes
Eva Cherniavsky, A review of Judith Butler's Precarious Life Life: The Powers and Mourning of Violence (Verso, 2004)

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