Critical communications research in Australia: from radical populism to creative industries

Flew, Terry (author)

This paper tracks the development of critical communications research in Australia over a 30- year period. It assesses the relative significance of critical theory, Marxist political economy and cultural studies to the development of such a tradition, linking this to distinctive elements of Australian politics and culture, particularly the weakness of the institutional left and the significance of populism as a mode of political engagement. The paper also evaluates the rise of 'creative industries' discourse as an emergent development, and a distinctive contribution of Australian media and communications research to the field internationally.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2004
• Number of pages: Str. 31-46
• Numbering: Vol. 11, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-76281
• UDC: 3
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 23800669
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor&Francis
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Title: Kritično raziskovanje komuniciranja v Avstraliji: od radikalne kritike do ustvarjalne industrije

Abstract

Članek obravnava razvoj kritičnega raziskovanja komuniciranja v Avstraliji v zadnjih tridesetih letih. Ocenjuje relativni pomen kritične teorije, marksistične politične ekonomije in kulturoloških študij za razvoj take tradicije v povezavi s specifičnimi elementi avstralske politike in kulture, zlasti s slabotno institucionalno levico in populizmom kot načinom političnega delovanja. Članek vrednoti tudi sodobni vzpon diskurza "ustvarjalne industrije" in prispevek avstralskega raziskovanja medijev in komuniciranja k razvoju področja v mednarodnem okviru.