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Ideology: towards renewal of a critical concept
In this response to our critics and fellow-travellers we reaffirm our claim that contemporary media studies should reinvent a critical concept of ideology. We do this through addressing some of the problems with older critical conceptions of ideology and suggesting potentially fruitful ways forward through engaging with research traditions that have become neglected or are overlooked in the field. This avowedly inter-disciplinary position draws on political philosophy, critical realism, ordinary language philosophy, and discursive psychology. At the end of the essay we show how a critical concept of ideology can be applied in analysis of news reporting.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Media, Culture and SocietyVolume
38Issue
8Pages
1261 - 1271Citation
DOWNEY, J. and TOYNBEE, J.,2016. Ideology: towards renewal of a critical concept. Media, Culture and Society, 38(8), pp. 1261-1271.Publisher
Sage (© The Authors)Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-09-07Publication date
2016Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Media, Culture and Society and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443716671494ISSN
0163-4437eISSN
1460-3675Publisher version
Language
- en