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Past Issues - Go to:	vol 23, issue 1 (2009)		vol 19 (2004)
	vol 22, issue 2 (2008)		vol 17 (2001)
	vol 22, issue 1 (2008)		vol 14, February (1996)
	vol 21, issue 2 (2007)		vol 14, September (1996)
	vol 21, issue 1 (2007)		vol 11 (1993-1994)
	vol 20 (2006)		vol 6, Winter (1987-1988)

Volume 23, Issue 1, Fall 2009

Critical Concepts: Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘Habitus’ and the Political Economy of the Media - David W. Park - - Full Text

Private Equity, Private Media - Ronald V. Bettig - - Full Text

From America’s Army to Call of Duty: Doing Battle with the Military Entertainment Complex - Robin Andersen and Marin Kurti - - Full Text

Reviews - Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects and Possibilities, by James F. Hamilton; Understanding Alternative Media, by Olga Guides Gailey, Bart Cammaerts and Nico Carpenter; The Alternative Media Handbook, by Kate Coyer, Tony Dowmunt and Alan Fountain - Reviewed by Brian Murphy. Democratic Communications: Formations, Projects and Possibilities, by James F. Hamilton - Reviewed by Andy Opel - - Full Text

Volume 22, Issue 2, Fall 2008

Surveillance, Mass Culture and the Subject: A Systems/Lifeworld Approach - Stephen Marmura, p. 5-22 - - Full Text

Fellow Traveler, Organic Intellectual: J. Raymond Walsh and Radio News Commentary in the 1940s - Nathan Godfried, p. 5-22 - - Full Text

The Campaign Against ‘Amerika’: Catalyst for Media Democratization - Robert A. Hackett, p. 5-22 - - Full Text

A Rock and a Hard Place: The CWA’s Approach to Media Policy, 1984-2002 - Brian Dolber, p. 5-22 - - Full Text

Review - Community Media; People, Places, and Communication Technologies, by Kevin Howley - Reviewed by James F. Hamilton, p. 85-87- - Full Text

Volume 22, Issue 1, Spring 2008

The Valorization of Surveillance: Towards a Political Economy of Facebook - Nicole S. Cohen, p. 5-22 - - Full Text
Bollyville, U.S.A.: The Commodification of the Other and MTV's Construction of the "Ideal Type" Desi - Murali Balaji, p. 23-40 - - Full Text
Free Speech Zones: Silencing the Political Dissident - Chris Demaske, p. 41-59 - - Full Text
Critical Concepts
Media Relations and Media Product: Audience as Commodity - Lee Artz, p. 60-74 - - Full Text

Full text versions of the following reviews are available here:

Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, edited by William Dinan and David Miller - Reviewed by Inger L. Stole
China Blue (2005), produced and directed by Micha X. Peled - Reviewed by Stephen Charbonneau
Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State, written by Norman Solomon - Reviewed by Robin Andersen

Volume 21, Issue 2, Fall 2007

The Political Economy of U.S. Broadcast Ownership Regulation and Free Speech after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Jeffrey Layne Blevins, p. 1-22 - - Full Text
Tactical Irrelevance: Art and Politics at Play - Sarah Kanouse, p. 23-39 - - Full Text
Stealing Time: The Temporal Regulation of Labor in Neoliberal and Post-Fordist Work Regimes - Andrew Stevens and David O. Lavin, 40-61 - - Full Text
Terrorism, Torture, and Television: 24 in its Context - John Downing, p. 62-82 - - Full Text

Full text versions of the following reviews are available here:

How to Think About Information, by Dan Schiller - Reviewed by Matthew Killmeier, p. 83-85
Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike, by Deepa Kumar - Reviewed by Christopher R. Martin, p. 85-88
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp - Reviewed by Mike Budd, p. 88-91

Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2007

Editor's Introduction - - Full Text
Media for Local Development: Community Media as a Medium for Civil Society - Diana E. Agosta, p.4-26 - - Full Text
Copyright Ownership in the Digital Age - Chris Jordan, p.27-42 - - Full Text
Global Fantasies: The Strange Disappearance of Bombay from its Own Cinema - Jyotsna Kapur and Manjunath Pendakur, p.43-59 - - Full Text
The Military-Media-Industrial Complex - Norman Solomon, p.60-71 - - Full Text
A Century of Media, A Century of War, by Robin Andersen - Reviewed by Jonathan Lawson, p.72-74 - - Full Text
Making Media Content: The Influence of Constituency Groups on Mass Media, by John A. Fortunato - Reviewed by Kyle F. Reinson, p.74-76 - - Full Text
Free Press: Underground & Alternative Publications 1965-1975, by Jean-François Bizot - Reviewed by John Downing, p.76-78 - - Full Text
Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication, by Robert A. Hackett & William K. Carroll - Reviewed by John Downing, p.78-80 - - Full Text

Volume 20, Spring 2006

On Mosco Street: An Interview with Vincent Mosco - James F. Tracy, p.1-16 - - Full Text
The Washington Consensus and the Axis of Empire: Tariq Ali's Address to the UDC Conference, St. Louis 2004 - Tariq Ali, p.17-24 - - Full Text
Covering the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press - Joe Atkins, p.25-43 - - Full Text
Academic Labor in the Corporate University: The Challenge for Unions - John Magney, p.45-68 - - Full Text
Academic Freedom: Illusions, Allusions, and Conclusions - Kathy Menzie, p.69-104 - - Full Text
Lived Reality in the Empty Spaces of Capital: Some Lessons from Video in Northern Canada - Darrell Varga, p.105-122 - - Full Text
Playing Dead - Shannon Petrello, p.123-126 - - Full Text
Book Review - War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, by Norman Solomon - Reviewed by Jim Hale, p.127-130 - - Full Text

Volume 19, Spring 2004

Selective Information is Misinformation: Edward S. Herman's Keynote Address to the 2002 UDC Conference - Edward Herman, p.1-12 - - Full Text
Reform or Alternatives?: Limits and Pressures on Changing the Canadian Mediascape - David Skinner, p.13-36 - - Full Text
Cultural Intersections in Early Australian Sound Films: Rangle River (1936) - Deborah Tudor, p.37-48 - - Full Text
News as Spectacle: The Political Economy and Aesthetics of 24/7 News - James Compton, p.49-74 - - Full Text
Mesoamerican Culture and the Children of Sanchez - Dr. Alfonso Moisés, p.75-89 - - Full Text
Media Democracy Day - Paul Baines, p.90-94 - - Full Text

Volume 17, Spring 2001

Table of Contents - - Full Text
Sports, Spectatorship, and Classism: The Cultural Environment of the New Stadia and Arenas in the United States - James H. Wittebols, p.1-8 - - Full Text
Poliglossia in Women's Films: Carlota Joaquina - José Gatti, p.9-24 - - Full Text
Democracy from the Ground Up: Reflections on Grassroots Media - Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong, p.25-39 - - Full Text
Telling My Lais: War Crimes and Reconciliation - Peter McGregor, p.41-48 - - Full Text
Review: Cultural Battles: The Meaning of the Viet Nam - USA War - Sheila Hobson, p.49-57 - - Full Text
Review: Whose News? Organisational Conflict in the Australian Broadcast Corporation - P. McGregor, p.59-63 - - Full Text
Course File: Teaching Alternative Film to Liberal Studies Freshmen - Deborah Tudor, p.65-68 - - Full Text

Volume 14, September 1996

Cultural Studies and the New South Africa - - Full Text

Volume 14, February 1996

Beijing Declaration: Women Need Greater Access to Communications - - Full text

Volume 11, 1993-1994

1993 UDC Conference, San Antonio, Cuba - - Full Text

Volume 6, Winter Issue, 1987-1988

Twelve-page issue of Democratic Communiqué, Winter 1987/1988 - - Full Text

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