Big Pharma's now got a one-person play called...Big Pharma...! in which writer-director-actor Jennifer Berry apparently skewers said industry. How many plays get reviewed by both the LA Weekly and PLOS Biology? Read on...
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...