Abstract

This is a third volume of the The Critical Communications Review edited by Vincent Mosco of Queen's University and Janet Wasko of the California State Polytechnic. The first two volumes dealt with the working class and the media and patterns of communication control. This volume treats popular culture and media events in a variety of ways, but one theme seems dominant: the idea that culture is "contested terrain." Culture is not only what is produced as commodities by elites, but it is "the site of struggles among classes over the production and interpretation o f signs, symbols, and expressions that define themselves and their relationship to one another. (x)

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