A systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and media studies. This volume interrogates discourse theory - as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe - through an engagement with major approaches to critical media politics and a range of issues in contemporary media politics.

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JACK ZELJKO BRATICH Associate Professor of Journalism and Media studies at Rutgers University, USA WEI-YUAN CHANG Ph.D. Candidate in the Ideology and Discourse Analysis Programme at the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK PETER DAHLGREN Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden NATALIE FENTON Professor in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK JEREMY GILBERT Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK JASON GLYNOS Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK OLIVER MARCHART Political Theorist and Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland JON SIMONS Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

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Note on Contributors Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction; S.Phelan & L.Dahlberg Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions; L.Dahlberg From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies; O.Marchart What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign; J.Gilbert Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' Expenses Scandal; Wei-yuan Chang & J.Glynos The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory; S.Phelan Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory; J.Zeljko Bratich Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements; N.Fenton Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media Politics; J.Simons Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials; P.Dahlgren Index