TY - JOUR
T1 - Fast-Capitalist Veils from Communication Theory for "The Public" and Its "Discourse"
AU - McLuskie, Ed
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Old and new terminologies in communication studies spin mercantile metaphors of transportation and distribution that cover like a veil the field’s rootedness in a capitalist lexicon and a capitalist history. Its threads bewilder enough to have spurred harmonising and differentiating accounts in communication theory and conceptions of the public—veils of capitalist justifications firmly tethered in the evolution of capitalist society. Thus an industrialising past of commercial interests also knits accounts today of “communication” and “the public.” Woven as a well-conventionalised lexicon, a few threads tether the rest, obdurately, in plain sight. “Message,” “network,” “audience,” “content,” among others, support a capitalist past and a fast-capitalist present. Communication theory thus becomes a useful tool of fast capitalism.
AB - Old and new terminologies in communication studies spin mercantile metaphors of transportation and distribution that cover like a veil the field’s rootedness in a capitalist lexicon and a capitalist history. Its threads bewilder enough to have spurred harmonising and differentiating accounts in communication theory and conceptions of the public—veils of capitalist justifications firmly tethered in the evolution of capitalist society. Thus an industrialising past of commercial interests also knits accounts today of “communication” and “the public.” Woven as a well-conventionalised lexicon, a few threads tether the rest, obdurately, in plain sight. “Message,” “network,” “audience,” “content,” among others, support a capitalist past and a fast-capitalist present. Communication theory thus becomes a useful tool of fast capitalism.
KW - Javnost
KW - communication theory
KW - critical studies
KW - discourse
KW - fast capitalism
KW - Öffentlichkeit
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/communication_facpubs/103
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2018.1418974
U2 - 10.1080/13183222.2018.1418974
DO - 10.1080/13183222.2018.1418974
M3 - Article
JO - Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
JF - Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations
ER -