There is a timely and urgent need for a reasoned dialogue reassessing how Marxism can advance
the study of human communication and transform the social world in which it is embedded. Indeed
ongoing world-historical events - including the vigorously organized market globalization the
corresponding insurgent global anticorporate movement and the conflicts engendered by the U.S.
invasion of Iraq - have underscored the importance of a thorough critique of global capitalism
and its telecommunication technologies and practices. This important new collection featuring
essays by leading scholars and practitioners provides a much-needed overview and assessment of
Marxism's significance to contemporary thinking in communication and media studies.
Contributors demonstrate how a Marxist perspective can be usefully applied to specific case
studies in communication providing valuable insights and understandings that are not
obtainable using other approaches.
