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The American National Security Consciousness, Culture and State:

John Stanton (Paper)

Tintin and the Anti-Semites: Spielberg’s Ambivalent Tribute to Hergé

Philip Bounds As ten-year-old boys of all ages know, Steven Spielberg's latest film is a virtuoso exercise in performance-capture animation entitled ...

featuredimage The Herman–Chomsky Propaganda Model: A Critical Approach to Analysing Mass Media Behaviour

Andrew Mullen and Jeffery Klaehn Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne and University of Strathclyde The Propaganda Model (PM), developed by Edward ...

featuredimage The Propaganda Model and Sociology: Understanding the Media and Society

Jeffery Klaehn, University of Strathclyde. Andrew Mullen, Northumbria University This article unpacks reasons why the Propaganda Model represents a  critical ...

Duty to Decode, Demystify and Debunk Doubtful Information

Jim Zackey With the tenth year of 9/11 commemorated, it is time for scholars to provide a template that can help others to decode, demystify and debunk the doubtful information from dubious self-appointed commentators presented by the media as ‘experts’. Are scholars adequately offering any effective templates to understand how the discourse of threat is produced and perpetuated ten years since [...]

Workers of the world disunite the media: ‘race’ and the politics of national identity David Bates

Abstract: This article examines contemporary British nationalism and the re-emergence of a popular ‘white’ identity in the UK with a particular focus on their appearance in media and political discourse. It argues that the nationalist slogans adopted by striking energy workers across the UK in January 2009, together with the proportionately large popular vote received [...]

Jeffery Klaehn (ed.) (2010). The Political Economy of Media and Power. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-1-4331-0773-3 (paperback). 361 pages.

Review by Joan Pedro, PhD candidate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Jeffery Klaehn’s edited book, The Political Economy of Media and Power, presents new insights on the relationships between power and culture. Throughout the volume contributors reflect on the political, economic, ethical and ideological dimensions of the social forces that shape cultural processes. Interdisciplinary in [...]

The Iranian Threat

The Iranian Threat June 28, 2010 By Noam Chomsky The dire threat of Iran is widely recognized to be the most serious foreign policy crisis facing the Obama administration. Congress has just strengthened the sanctions against Iran, with even more severe penalties against foreign companies. The Obama administration has been rapidly expanding its offensive capacity [...]