Media, Ideology and Hegemony equips readers with the essential tools they need to think critically about the new digital world.

Savä Çoban, Ph.D. (2011), is an independent researcher. He has published articles, edited books on media and communication, including Media and Left (Brill, 2014).

Table of Contents

Preface

Vincent Mosco

List of Maps

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Savä Çoban

1 Global Media Practices and Cultural Hegemony: Growing, Harvesting, and Marketing the Consuming Audience

Burton Lee Artz

2 The Return of Radical Humanism in Marxism and Anarchism? The Art of Refusal, Resistance and Humility

Nick Stevenson

3 The Culture of Capitalism

Arthur Asa Berger

4 Adorno on Ideology: Ideology Critique and Mass Consumerism

Thomas Klikauer

5 Hegemony, Ideology, Media

Savä Çoban

6 Hegemony and the Media: A Culturally Materialist Narrative of Digital Labor in Contemporary Capitalism

Marco Briziarelli and Jeffrey Hoffmann

7 Distorted Knowledge and Repressive Power

Peter Ludes

8 Counter-Hegemony Narratives: Revolutionary Songs

Padmaja Shaw

9 The US Empire's Cultural Industries, at War: Selling and Subverting the Ideology of Militarism

Tanner Mirrlees

10 Donald Trump and the Politics of the Spectacle

Douglas Kellner

11 The US Media, State Legitimacy, and the New Cold War

Gerald Sussman

12 American Journalism's Ideology: Why the "Liberal" Media is Fundamentalist

Robert Jensen

13 Media Activism from Above and Below: Lessons from the 1940s American Reform Movement

Victor Pickard

14 The Role of the Hollywood Motion Picture Production Code (1930-1966) in the Creation of Hegemony

Alfonso M. Rodríguez de Austria Giménez de Aragón

15 MH17as Free-Floating Atrocity Propaganda

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

16 Commercial Reform and the Ideological Function of Chinese Television: A New Model in a New Era?

Junhao Hong and Minghua Xu

Index