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John Downey
John
Downey
Gavan Titley
Gavan
Titley
Jason Toynbee
Jason
Toynbee
Ideology critique: the challenge for media studies
Loughborough University
2015
Crisis
Critique
Ideology
Inequality
Media
Public sphere
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
2015-06-18 08:24:42
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Ideology_critique_the_challenge_for_media_studies/9477701
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis after 2008. Then in the final section we examine advocacy of ‘social mobility’ in the public sphere, an ideological project if ever there was one.