This paper is taken from Chapter One of Radical Mass Media Criticism: A Cultural Genealogy (2006)...It argues that there exists a 'genealogy' of ideas that amount to a tradition of radical media thought. And so on.
Radical mass media criticism has over the last decades frequently been reduced to a caricature of itself and consigned to the margins of media analysis. It has been given short shrift, misjudged as 'simplistic' and labelled 'discredited'...
In the late 1940s & early 1950s, economic historian Harold Innis (1894-1952), Canada's preeminent scholar of the 20th century, helped inaugurate media studies (a field now under media imperialism), yet his work remains obscure...
journal of radical media thinking and critical practice, a forum for all those deeply concerned about a mass media that's represented a controlling elite...