Challenging Communication Research

Leah A. Lievrouw (PhD, the University of Southern California) is a professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Alternative and Activist New Media (2011), which received the 2011 best book award from the Communication and Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association. She is co-editor with Sonia Livingstone of the four-volume Benchmarks in Communication: New Media (2009), and The Handbook of New Media (2006).

Contents: François Heinderyckx: Foreword – Leah A. Lievrouw: Editor’s Introduction: Challenge and Change in Communication Research – Anita Varma: The Ironic Incongruity of Canonical Common Sense in Critical Communication: The Case of Stuart Hall’s «Encoding/Decoding» Model – Sean Phelan: Critiquing «Neoliberalism»: Three Interrogations and a Defense – David Karpf/Daniel Kreiss/Rasmus Kleis Nielsen: A New Era of Field Research in Political Communication? – Alex Balch/Ekaterina Balabanova/Ruxandra Trandafoiu: Normative Europe and the Roma Issue in the Romanian and Bulgarian Press – Udo Göttlich/Martin Rolf Herbers: Would Jürgen Habermas Enjoy The Daily Show? Entertainment Media and the Normative Presuppositions of the Political Public Sphere – Katharina Wolf: Beyond the Corporate Lens: The Use of Humor in Activist Communication – Adrienne Shaw: Representation Matters(?): When, How and If Representation Matters to Marginalized Game Audiences – Aram Sinnreich/Mark Latonero: Uncommon Knowledge: Testing Persistent Beliefs about Configurable Culture and Society – Katharine Sarikakis/Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat: iAuthor: The Fluid State of Creativity Rights and the Vanishing Author – Nora A. Draper: The New Reputation Custodians: Examining the Industrialization of Visibility in the Reputation Society – David J. Phillips/Brian J. Harding/Danielle Leighton: Possibilities for Queering Surveillance Infrastructure: The Case of the Quantified Self – Annie Rudd: The Unobserved Observer: Humphrey Spender’s Hidden Camera and the Politics of Visibility in Interwar Britain – Gina Neff/Brittany Fiore-Silfvast/Carrie Sturts Dossick: Materiality: Challenges and Opportunities for Communication Theory.