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    Review: Mixtape Resistance

    Michael Barker Review of Jared Ball, I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto. San Francisco: AK Press, 2011, ISBN: 9781849350570 (pbk) The ruling class would prefer that the people of the world did not communicate with one another, unless of course it is mediated by ruling class media, a preference amply demonstrated in the [...]

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    Fifth Estate Online welcomes academic papers and other contributions that match the aims and objectives of the journal. Contributions must not have been previously published nor should they be in the process of being submitted for publication elsewhere. Two independent referees are chosen to review each academic paper.

    Contributions should be written in clear, accessible and lively academic style. They should be an original contribution to their subject scholarship, compellingly argued and provide a coherently structured and methodologically rigorous analytical narrative.

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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 ...

featuredimage Paul A. Taylor and Jan LI. Harris (2008) Critical Theories of Mass Media: Then and Now

Paul A. Taylor and Jan LI. Harris (2008) Critical Theories of Mass Media: Then and Now Fifth-Estate-Online, July 2010 ...

featuredimage Orwell, the Journalist, and London – Richard Keeble

Richard Keeble Orwell is nothing less than a cultural icon. I typed Orwell into the newspaper  database LexisNexis and over ...

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 [...]

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Submission guidelines Fifth Estate Online welcomes academic papers that match the aims and objectives of the journal as described on the About FEO page. Contributions must not have been previously published nor should they be in the process of being submitted for publication elsewhere. Two independent referees are chosen to review each academic paper. Contributions [...]

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 The Adventures of Tintin. At first I was determined not to go and see it. Hergé’s Tintin books meant a great deal to me in my childhood and I didn’t want my memories of [...]

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 [...]