G Murdock

Biographic Data

ID23051
NAMEG Murdock
GIVEN NAMESG
FAMILY NAMEMurdock
SIGNATUREMURDOCK G
AFFILIATIONSLoughborough University
ORCID0000-0002-1385-5521
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS101
AUTHOR COUNT59
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock

    Open AccessG Murdock, Catherine Fuchs et al.ARTICLEtripleC Communication Capitalism…2024

    This paper presents an interview with Graham Murdock. It was conducted by Thomas Allmer and Christian Fuchs for tripleC. In it, Graham Murdock reflects on the field of Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication, his contributions to and work in this field of studies, the role of Karl Marx in this field, Stuart Hall, Critical Political Economy and Cultural Studies, Raymond Williams, the climate crisis and the environmental movement, M…

  • Ibn Khaldun and Critical Inquiry: A Response to Christian Fuchs

    Open AccessG MurdockARTICLECritical Sociology2023Cited by: 1References: 6

  • The Political Economy of Contemporary Journalism and the Crisis of Public Knowledge

    Peter Golding, G MurdockCHAPTERRoutledge Companion to News and…2022

    From its foundation in the later 18th century, political economy has been centrally concerned with understanding how the production and delivery of goods and services are structured by relations between capital and government, and how private interests should be balanced against the public good. This chapter asks how the dual impact of marketisation and digitalisation has altered the organisation and practice of journalism and the conditions of p…

  • Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis

    David Deacon, D A G Deacon et al.BOOKResearching Communications2021

    The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, t…

  • Profits of deceit: Performing populism in polarised times

    Open AccessG MurdockARTICLEEuropean Journal of Cultural…2020Cited by: 1References: 11

    The article is an invited contribution to the special issue to mark the anniversary of the publication of Jim McGuigan’s ‘Cultural Populism’. Drawing on work on authoritarian populism produced by the scholars grouped around the Frankfurt Institute of Research during their war-time exile in the Unites States, this article explores the right-wing populist platforms developed by Donald Trump during and after his presidential campaign and by the two …

  • Media Materialties: For A Moral Economy of Machines

    Open AccessG MurdockARTICLEJournal of Communication2018

    The infrastructures and assemblies of machines that constitute the digital communications environment are constructed from a range of resources, which are transformed into artefacts through chains of production, maintenance, and disposal. These background conditions of everyday use, however, remain a blind spot for much mainstream communications inquiry. This paper asks why, and argues that the increasing centrality of digital technologies to the…

  • Commons manifestos: A reply to Bauwens and Ramos

    G MurdockARTICLEGlobal Discourse2018Cited by: 1References: 1

    This reply piece is a response to the article by Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos, “Re-imagining the Left through an ecology of the commons: Toward a post-capitalist commons transition”. In it, Graham Murdock argues that while developing a commons for contemporary conditions is a core requirement for a post-capitalist social order, it is not in itself sufficient. It is also necessary to confront the contradictory role the state has played in the dev…

  • Refeudalização revisitada

    Open AccessG MurdockARTICLEMatrizes2018References: 4

    A eleição de Donald Trump como presidente dos Estados Unidos e a bem-sucedida campanha do referendo para saída da União Europeia no Reino Unido provocaram um interesse renovado nos desafios impostos à democracia deliberativa pelo populismo de direita. Este artigo retorna à pesquisa sobre o autoritarismo desenvolvida pela Escola de Frankfurt, na Alemanha e nos Estados Unidos, particularmente à sua ênfase na construção performativa de apelos e à po…

  • Citizens, consumers, and public culture

    G MurdockCHAPTERMedia Cultures2016

    Governments pursued privatisation policies on the promise that they would increase consumer choice. Marketing men set about mapping style communities based on shared tastes, and academics, reading these signs of the times, declared the arrival of the post-modern age in which appearance eclipsed substance and what people saw was all people got. Commentators in the West were quick to proclaim a victory for capitalism. In the battle for hearts and m…

  • Political economy and media production: A reply to Dwyer

    Open AccessG Murdock, Peter GoldingARTICLEMedia Culture & Society2016Cited by: 4References: 3

    This is a response to an article by Paul Dwyer in this Journal which makes several claims about the nature and impact of the political economy approach to the analysis of media and communications. We argue that Dwyer’s article misunderstands or is unaware of the history of this approach, and quite fundamentally misconstrues its central tenets. Our response explains how, in capitalist societies, media organisations are integrated into general proc…

  • Mass Media, Political Economy of

    Open AccessG MurdockCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Holding down half the sky: Female knowledge workers and flexible employment in China's publishing conglomerates

    Open AccessJin Cao, Jin Cao Jin Cao et al.ARTICLEWork Organisation Labour &…2015

    Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews with educated women working in the contemporary Chinese publishing industry, this article details the deterioration in their living and working conditions produced by the combination of conglomeration within the industry and the erosion of the state-supported welfare system. It pays particular attention to the role of flexible employment practices and revised organisational hierarchies in reshaping their…

  • The Political Economy of Crisis and the Crisis of Political Economy: The Challenge of Sustainability

    Open AccessG MurdockARTICLEtripleC Communication Capitalism…2015

    This tripleC-contribution is a podcast of a talk Graham Murdock gave in the Communication and Media Research Institute's (CAMRI) Research Seminar Series at the University of Westminster on October 15, 2015.AbstractRecent developments in the organisation of capitalism have given renewed urgency to critical political economy’s core concern with the shifting relations between capital, state and civil society and placed issues around communications a…

  • The Medium is the Marketplace: Digital Systems and the Intensification of Consumption

    Open AccessLee Mcguigan, G MurdockARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication2015

    Taking Marx’s analysis as the point of departure, and drawing on a range of concrete examples, this article argues that rather than concentrating on the “new” forms of social and economic intercourse animated by digital media, and especially internet-enabled mobile devices, critical analysis needs to trace the ways in which digital consumption is intensifying the progressive integration of marketing, marketplaces, and forms of payment that have b…

  • Following the Money

    Benedetta Brevini, G MurdockCHAPTERBeyond WikiLeaks2013

  • Following the Money: WikiLeaks and the Political Economy of Disclosure

    Open AccessBenedetta Brevini, G MurdockCHAPTERBeyond WikiLeaks2013

    In a pivotal scene in All the President’s Men , the Oscar-winning film about the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward, an ambitious young reporter on the Washington Post , goes to meet his anonymous, shadowy, informant, “Deep Throat,” in an underground car park. Woodward hopes the encounter will offer clues to possible connections between the burglary at the Watergate Hotel and malpractice in President Nixon’s re-election campaign. He is told to “foll…

  • Afterword

    G Murdock, A SpicerARTICLEPast & Present2012

    This short conclusion will reflect on the essays in this volume and on the relationship between religion and violence in sixteenth-century France. Our point of departure is the changing historiographical context for the study of religious violence. When Natalie Zemon Davis first analysed ‘the rites of violence’ in the pages of Past and Present in 1973, she wrote of how George Rudé, Eric Hobsbawm, Charles Tilly, and E. P. Thompson among others had…

  • The Public Sphere

    Jostein Gripsrud, Hallvard Moe et al.BOOKThe Public Sphere2011

    VOLUME 1: DISCOVERING THE PUBLIC SPHERE Part 1: Inventing the Public Sphere Speech to the Electors of Bristol - Edmund Burke An Answer to the Question: 'What Is Enlightenment?' - Immanuel Kant On Public Opinion - Alexander Hamilton On Public Opinion - Jacques Peuchet Excerpt from Critique of the Power of Judgment - Immanuel Kant Public Opinion - James Madison Excerpt from Toward Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant Excerpt from The Liberty of the Anci…

  • Consciousness of class and consciousness of generation

    G Murdock, Robin McCronCHAPTERResistance through rituals2010

  • Shifting anxieties, altered media: Risk communication in networked times

    G MurdockARTICLECatalan Journal of Communication…2010Cited by: 1References: 9

    Over the last two decades both the landscape of risk and the organization of public communication have been substantially transformed by the intersection of two processes: the digitalization of media systems and the acceleration of marketization. Taken together, these shifts raise a series of conceptual and research issues for work in risk communication. This article sets out to sketch an agenda for discussion by outlining the implications of cur…

  • Pierre Bourdieu,Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    G MurdockARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2010Cited by: 5

    by Pierre Bourdieu/translated by Richard Nice, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1987, 640 pp., paperback, ISBN 0-67-421277-0 Born in 1930, the son of the postmaster in a village in the remo

  • A Time to Dance, A Time to Die. The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

    G MurdockARTICLEGerman History2009

    John Waller here analyses the extraordinary outbreak of ‘dancing plague’ which took place in Strasbourg during the summer of 1518. Using contemporary printed texts, chronicles and compilations of materials from the city's archives, Waller attempts to piece together what drove hundreds of people in Strasbourg to dance themselves to exhaustion, and some to dance themselves to death. Most of the chapters of this book are dedicated to explaining the …

  • Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania: Culture, Politics and Religion, 1693-1773

    G MurdockARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009

    This book covers the attempts of Jesuits based in Cluj to promote the Catholic cause in Transylvania during the eighteenth century. This text on the Jesuits follows recent published work which has examined the role of the Habsburg court, the Franciscans, Catholic nobles and the laity in the development of early modern Transylvanian Catholicism. In the opening pages of his book Shore offers a sense of the tone of his subsequent analysis. The hasty…

  • Contemporary communication and questions of social class

    Open AccessG MurdockARTICLEMatrizes2009

    Durante muitos anos, os estudos de mídia e comunicação partilhavam de um conceito comum a outras áreas do conhecimento: o conceito de classe social. Aos poucos, este conceito foi substituído por outros que buscavam destacar não as invariâncias, mas as singularidades entre grupos sociais em conflito. Os rígidos contornos verticais da classe deram lugar aos horizontes abertos da diferença. É hora de inverter esta percepção e insistir que sob a prai…

  • Reformation Europe

    G MurdockARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008