“The concentration of power, represented by current prevailing media conditions, is and ought to be open to challenge.” An interview with Peter Golding.

  • Jernej Amon Prodnik Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
  • Sašo Slaček Brlek Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v15i1.863
Keywords: Critical Political Economy of Communication, Cultural Studies, Critical Scholarship, Marxism, neoliberalism

Abstract

Interview with Peter Golding, Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University and one of the crucial figures in Critical Political Economy of Communication. In the interview we discuss the role of critical scholarship, the sometimes troubled relationship between cultural studies and critical political economy of communication, the importance of a sociological perspective in studying media, and the impact of broader socio-political trends on academia.

Author Biographies

Jernej Amon Prodnik, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Assistant Professor at the Department of Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and researcher at the Social Communications Research Centre, which is based at the same institution. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. His principal research interests encompass critique of political economy and historical transformations of capitalist societies with an emphasis on media and communication.

Sašo Slaček Brlek, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Researcher at the Social Communications Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana. His main research interests include theories of public opinion and the public sphere, and the critical political economy of communication with a particular focus on researching newswork and newsworkers from the labour process perspective
Published
2017-03-27
Issue
Vol 15 No 1 (2017)
Section
The Point is to Change It! Critical Political Interventions in Media and Communication Studies

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