The Strictest Taboo: The Marginalization of Marxism in Mainstream Communication Studies

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Critical Sociology Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI:10.1177/08969205231213281

Sašo Slaček Brlek, Boris Mance

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Abstract

Our study uses big data analysis to examine the influence of Marxism on communication studies throughout its history. We track citations of Marxist authors and the use of Marxist concepts in the titles, keywords, or abstracts of publications in the Web of Science scholarly database in the category of communication. We find that Marxian authors and ideas were almost completely absent from the mainstream of media studies until the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War and the Great Recession of 2008 significantly increased citations of Marxist authors. We use network analysis to identify different currents of thought or paradigmatic appropriations of Marxism within communication studies and identify five clusters of appropriation of Marx’s ideas within communication studies: Theories of Democracy, Political Economy of Communication, Critique of Power Relations, Feminism and Antiracism, and Critical Discourse Analysis.

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最严格的禁忌：马克思主义在主流传播学中的边缘化

我们的研究使用大数据分析来考察马克思主义对传播学历史的影响。我们跟踪马克思主义作者的引用，以及在Web of Science学术数据库中传播类别的出版物的标题、关键词或摘要中使用马克思主义概念。我们发现，在冷战结束之前，马克思主义的作者和思想几乎完全没有出现在主流媒体研究中。冷战的结束和2008年的大衰退大大增加了马克思主义作家的引用。我们使用网络分析来识别传播研究中马克思主义的不同思想潮流或范式挪用，并确定传播研究中马克思思想的五个挪用集群:民主理论，传播政治经济学，权力关系批判，女权主义和反种族主义，以及批判话语分析。

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Critical Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.70

自引率

5.30%

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期刊介绍： Critical Sociology is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research. Originally appearing as The Insurgent Sociologist, it grew out of the tumultuous times of the late 1960s and was a by-product of the "Sociology Liberation Movement" which erupted at the 1969 meetings of the American Sociological Association. At first publishing work mainly within the broadest boundaries of the Marxist tradition, over the past decade the journal has been home to articles informed by post-modern, feminist, cultural and other perspectives that critically evaluate the workings of the capitalist system and its impact on the world.