Author bio of Steve Hoenisch.
Book Review of Read All About It: The Corporate Takeover of America’s Newspapers: Read All About It: The Corporate Takeover of America’s Newspapers is an institutional acknowledgement of what many wary readers have known for years: Corporate control is ruining our daily newspapers. Download PDF
An Analysis of Kellner’s Theory of Media Culture In an era when the media have grown to be one of the most dominant forms of culture in North American — so dominant, in fact, that the they can now be seen as the pinnacle of commercial culture — an explanatory theory of the media becomes paramount. Yet considering the intimate relationship between culture and media and that, for many, the media have become their culture, a theory that views the media outside the context of culture will be afflicted with myopia. Thus, for completeness, a theory of the media requires a firm connection to culture in its every step. Douglas Kellner, in his book Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern, sets out to make these connections. Download PDF