Vol. 27 No. 1 (2016): Democratic Communique

• Dallas Smythe Award Keynote Lecture

  Robert A. Hackett

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• Why the Neoliberal U is Making Us Stupid

  Jyotsna Kapur

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• “Not Just A Nice Job Perk”: Academic Freedom as a First Amendment Right

  Chris Demaske

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• Understanding Alternative Media Power: Mapping Content & Practice to Theory, Ideology, and Political Action

  Sandra Jeppesen

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• The Need for Social Media Alternatives

  Robert W. Gehl, Julie Synder-Yuly

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Book Reviews

• America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media. By Victor Pickard.

  Brian Dolber

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• To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World. By Vincent Mosco.

  Mihaela Popescu

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• Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty. By Jairo Lugo-Ocando.

  Steve Macek

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• Theories of Ideology: The Powers of Alienation and Subjection. By Jan Rehmann.

  Robert Carley

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