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**REFRAMING MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL CRISIS**
The journal WESTMINSTER PAPERS IN COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE is thrilled to announce the publication of a special first new AUDIO commentary issue on the topic of reshaping media and cultural studies.
Dr Tarik Sabry describes: ‘In an age of ongoing economic and political crisis, military conflict displacing millions of people and systems of governance and democracy in question, a reassessment of the questions posed by the disciplines of media and cultural studies is called for. Traditional paradigms for conceptualising the media are further challenged by shifts in the media environment resulting from the growth of digital and mobile media. This is a defining moment for the field and a time for reflection and re-evaluation.’
WPCC is an open access journal and all content is available to read free from:
http://westminsterpapers.org/29/volume/12/issue/1/
Contents
WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS?
The Academic Study of Media has Always been the Study of New Media
Paddy Scannell
Where is the Global in Media Theory (and When)?
David Morley
Is ISIS “the” Crisis? Media Studies as Contemporary History – A Provocation
Annabelle Sreberny
Making Media Studies Transformational: Creativity Over (Just) Criticism
David Gauntlett
GLOBAL CRISIS AND MEDIA THEORY
The Return of the Popular
Paolo Gerbaudo
Social Movements and the Global Crisis: Organising Communication for Change
Anastasia Kavada
Crisis Politics and Austerity in the UK: Creative Instabilities?
Jeremy Gilbert
Hegemonic Shadows: USA, China and Dewesternising Media Studies
Colin Sparks
RETHINKING INTERNATIONALISING MEDIA STUDIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Internationalizing Media Studies: A Reconsideration
Daya Thussu
Internationalizing Media and Cultural Studies: Travelling Knowledge and Translocalities
Fernando Resende
Transnationality or Globality? The Korean Wave and Methodological Challenges in Media and Cultural Studies
Jaeho Kang
Mediatization, Suffering and the Death of Philosophy
Tarik Sabry
Difficult Questions: Trends in Communication Studies – A South African View
Viola Milton
Chinese Communication Studies: Three Paths Converging
Wenshan Jia
NEW/OLD THEORY IN MEDIA STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES
Encountering the Anthropocene: Geology, Culture, Ethics
Joanna Zylinska
What is to Be Done? The Role of the New and the Old in Media Theory – The Moment for Critical Digital and Social Media Studies
Christian Fuchs
Media and Communication as a Field of Research
Kaarle Nordenstreng
WESTMINSTER PAPERS IN COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE is published by theUniversity of Westminster Press (http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk <http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/>)