11 articles in this issue
Jeffrey Layne Blevins
The photo credit for the 2020 Volume 29 cover of the Democratic Communiqué is given to Jeffrey Layne Blevins, Associate Professor & Head, Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati.
Nolan Higdon
Since the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, policy makers, scholars, and critics have increasingly warned about the dangers associated with fake news. In response, they have proposed numerous solutions to fake news, media literacy being one frequently ment... see more
Linda Fuller
Beginning with a broad perspective on sport sex scandals, this critical commentary compares two of the worst: the 2012 Penn State child sex abuse scandal by a football coach and the 2019 revelations about sexual assault on more than 368 female gymnasts by... see more
Derek Hrynyshyn
The electoral success of challenges to principles of liberal tolerance in recent years surely calls out for a thorough rethinking of how our democracies work. This collection of essays is a welcome reminder that political theory can be an important part o... see more
Jim Wittebols
As a fan of the show, I was eager to read this book as it comes from UDC member Robin Andersen of Fordham University. Treme was conceived and produced by David Simon and Eric Overmyer, as a follow up to their critically received The Wire. The intention of... see more
Many of you will be reading this issue of Democratic Communiqué for the first time while following stay-at-home orders and adjusting to remote working arrangements as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the globe. Although, the articles in this issue (... see more
Aaron Heresco, Stephanie Figueroa
This essay provides a brief institutional and structural account of the history and context of retransmission fees and the revenues they generate in the television industry. We argue that commodity formations within the television industry are broader, an... see more
Marco Briziarelli
This essay advances a critique of current capitalism based on the operationalization of Gramsci’s take on translation and translatability and Marx’s notion of subsumption, and argues that translatability reveals subsumptive processes in communicative term... see more
Joshua D. Atkinson, Rasfanul Hoque, Blessy McWan, Jewel White
In this project, we conducted focus groups with college students at a mid-sized university in order to examine their interpretations of different political advertisements. Our interest emerged from heightened political tensions in the United States that h... see more
Julian Posada, Leslie Regan Shade
This paper provides an analysis of the discursive contradictions and narratives of labour within Hyr, a location-based freelance platform app that caters to the retail, hospitality, and restaurant sectors in Toronto and New York. The app provides companie... see more
Tabe Bergman
By way of content analyses and a Critical Discourse Analysis, this article characterizes the scholarship on Dutch journalism in the 21st century, finding that critical political economy is a blindspot. This article then argues for the salience of critical... see more