Tag: Peter Funke

Communication, class and concentric media practices: Developing a contemporary rubric

Citizen Media, Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke, Translating Dissent

New Media & Society, Volume 16, Number 3, 2014 Todd Wolfson and Peter N Funke Abstract Understanding class as a process of self-making in relation to a particular, historical form of capitalism, in this article we argue that media and communication (from face-to-face and old mediums such as radio to internet-powered tools) must be conceptualized as an emerging structural dimension for class

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Suturing Working Class Subjectivities: Media Mobilizing Project and the Role of Media Building a Class-Based Social Movement

Citizen Media, Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke, Translating Dissent

Triple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique Volume 10, Number 1, 2012   Abstract Due to the increasingly atomized, isolated nature of social life, as well as the apparent splintering of the working class under neoliberal capitalism, media serve a pivotal infrastructural function for generating the necessary commonality between the fractured sectors of the contemporary working class. This article ethnographically and

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Class In-Formation: The Intersection of Old and New Media in Contemporary Urban Social Movements

Citizen Media, Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke, Translating Dissent

Social Movement Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2014 DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2013.831755 Peter Nikolaus Funkea & Todd Wolfsonb* pages 349-364 Published online: 19 Sep 2013 Abstract This article starts out by distinguishing between communication and communication mediums when examining social movement-powered formations of collective identity and collective action. We then focus on communication mediums to examine the different ways that old and new media are

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