Simon Dawe
Biographic Data
| ID | 252939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Dawe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawe |
| SIGNATURE | DAWE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9726-8852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Charles W. Mills and Media Theory
This short article introduces the special section, ‘Charles W. Mills and Media Theory’. It considers the contribution that Mills’ thought – on the relations between race and class, on the significance of race, whiteness and ignorance for understanding liberalism, and on the potential of liberalism to be made more radical, redistributive and egalitarian – for work on media and communication
Neoliberalism Studies and Media Studies
This short article provides an overview of the various theoretical and methodological approaches to analysing neoliberalism, paying particular attention to political-economic and governmental approaches (and the extent to which they can be contrasted or combined), and argues for a more theoretically- and methodologically-informed, interdisciplinary critique of neoliberalism in media studies. In emphasising the heterogeneity of approaches to study…
Special Issue Introduction: Critique, Postcritique and the Present Conjuncture
How might we map the different horizons, questions, topics and concerns that come into view when we bring together the signifiers “critique”, “postcritique” and the “present conjuncture”? The canvas suggested by the question might seem impossibly broad and disorderly, but the different contributions to this special issue of Media Theory share a common desire to confront the question of what critique means today. This editorial introduction identi…
Islamogauchisme » ? The fallacy and function of an empty signifier
This article introduces the special issue ‘« Islamogauchisme » ? Moral Panics, Culture Wars and the Threat to Academic Freedom’. It begins by outlining the polemic in 2020, whereby the government accused universities of being overrun by so-called ‘Islamogauchistes’, placing this moral panic within the wider French context of ideological redefinitions of laïcité and debates on the compatibility of Islam with the universalism of a secular republic,…
The mainstreaming of the far right in France: Republican, liberal and illiberal articulations of racism
In this interview, Aurelien Mondon and Simon Dawes analyse the mainstreaming of far-right politics. It aims to make sense of Marine Le Pen's rise by putting it in perspective and accounting for the role of the mainstream itself in the process. Building on the research Mondon has undertaken with colleagues, this interview explores in particular the importance of understanding mainstreaming beyond it being the success of the far right or a sign of …
Voice, Capabilities and the Public Sphere: Assessing the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Media Freedom(s)
Following previous work in applying the capabilities approach to the study of media, communications and culture, this article will consider the merits of applying a capabilities-supplemented account of cultural citizenship for evaluating the legitimacy and efficacy of the public sphere. Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser on the public sphere and Nick Couldry on voice, the article will focus on the extent to which “voice” can be understood as a “…
Introduction: Michel Serres and Media Theory
This short article introduces the special section, ‘Michel Serres and Media Theory’
From Public Service to Public Interest and Beyond in British Broadcasting Regulation
This article will focus on the evolving rationale for broadcasting regulation and understandings of the national interest in the UK, deconstructing the ongoing reconfiguration of the terms ‘public service’ and ‘public interest’, as well as ‘public control’ and ‘public value’, within regulatory documents, to argue that there has been an increasing marginalisation and reconstruction of the notion of ‘public service’ in favour of an approach that pr…
Islamophobia, racialisation and the ‘Muslim problem’ in France
This article introduces the special issue on ‘Islamophobia, Racialisation and the “Muslim Problem” in France’. Islamophobia is here understood as (anti-Muslim) racism, with structural and historical dimensions beyond those of individual acts of discrimination or prejudice, and whereby those perceived to be Muslim are systematically racialised as if they are ‘a race’ and as a ‘problem’ to be debated (primarily by the White non-Muslim majority). Th…
Couze Venn: Thinking at the limits
Neoliberalism Studies et Media Studies
Ce bref article propose un panorama des différentes approches théoriques et méthodologiques pour analyser le néolibéralisme. Il s’attache tout spécialement à définir les approches politico-économiques et gouvernementales (et dans quelle mesure elles s’opposent ou se combinent) et plaide en faveur d’une critique du néolibéralisme mieux construite sur le plan théorique et méthodologique dans le champ des Media Studies. En soulignant l’hétérogénéité…
Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge
Neoliberalism, Voice and National Media Systems: An Interview with Terry Flew
In this interview, Terry Flew discusses the continued relevance of the nation-state and national media systems in an era of globalization, and the need for cross-national comparative research in media studies. He also discusses the benefits of the concepts of ‘voice’ and ‘participation’ over ‘citizenship’ for evaluating media systems, and criticises the overblown and dismissive use of ‘neoliberalism’ as a rhetorical flourish, in favour of develop…
Introduction to Michel Maffesoli's 'from Society to Tribal Communities
This article introduces Michel Maffesoli's article 'From Society to Tribal Communities', in which he argues that emerging communities, although post-modern, are not entirely new but archaic and rooted in pre-modernity, and that these tribes are further facilitated by new technological developments such as social media. The introduction summarizes the main argument of the article while contextualizing it within both Maffesoli's wider work and seco…
The Digital Occupation of Gaza: An Interview with Helga Tawil-Souri
In this contribution to a Special Issue on Mediatizing Gaza, the author interviews Helga Tawil-Souri on the significance of digital technology to the Israeli occupation of Gaza. In discussing this, she covers the extent to which Israel’s military, territorial, infrastructural and technological control over Gaza can be considered an occupation and example of settler colonialism. The interview focuses, however, on the processes by which both Israel…
Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: A response to Downey et al
Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of Stuart Hall’s work on ideology and the media, John Downey, Gavan Titley and Jason Toynbee have recently argued for the urgent need to recover the key dimensions of Hall’s ideology critique. While affirming the need for an effective critique of neoliberalism, this article takes issue with two aspects of Downey et al.’s article: first, their principal claim that ideology critique has been ma…
On a Critique of Actually Existing Neoliberal Media
The trouble with many critiques of the neoliberalization of the media is that they tend to be more concerned with disparaging neoliberalism than with trying to understand it. More often than not, the term is invoked cursorily and applied as more of a storytelling device than a formally explicated concept as such (16). And although there may be a political necessity to “name neoliberalism,” ostensibly critical accounts that offer grand narratives …
Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech and Counter-Speech
This brief rapid response article considers the French media framing of the Charlie Hebdo attack in terms of 'Republican values' such as free speech, and critiques the post-political and moralistic reduction of debate to 'right and wrong' arguments, as well as the fetishisation of the right to offend and the depoliticisation of the right to be offended
Public space, media space
The Invention of News: How the World came to know about Itself
This book traces the development of the European news market, and the transformation of news into a commercial commodity, from the early fifteenth to the early nineteenth century (2). It covers the
Broadcasting and the public sphere: Problematising citizens, consumers and neoliberalism
Literature on broadcasting regulation in the UK often presents a narrative of decline, from an ethos of public service and citizenship to a neoliberal faith in market logic and the sovereign consumer that undermines the public sphere. Much of this discussion is weakened, however, by a lack of engagement with citizenship and consumption, and the reduction to unitary oppositions of what are actually protean distinctions. This weakness in the litera…
Representing the City: Non-Representation, Digital Archives and Megacity Phenomena
Taking technological developments in urban mapping and the megacity phenomena of rapid change and sprawling space as its starting point, this essay provides a history of the present through a genealogy of maps of Montpellier in France, a rapidly growing modern city that provides examples from the earliest printed maps of the 16th century through to the most recent innovations in public-sponsored 3D mapping. By tracing the shifting correlations of…
Gérard Duménil, Dominique Lévy, La grande bifurcation. En finir avec le néolibéralisme
Ce livre met en avant un cadre analytique néomarxiste pour comprendre le néolibéralisme et prolonger la théorie marxiste des classes dans le capitalisme. Après avoir présenté les phases successives du capitalisme jusqu’au néolibéralisme, il se clôt avec la proposition d’une stratégie pour sortir de la crise économique et écologique contemporaine : « celle d’un nouveau compromis de classe à gauche en Europe ». Selon cette perspective néomarxiste, …
Press Freedom, Privacy and The Public Sphere
Taking as its starting point the reduction of the News International phone-hacking scandal to a debate on the balance between privacy and press freedom, this article will argue for the recasting of these rights in terms of their mutual significance for the public sphere. After reviewing the history of the legal approach to balancing these two liberal freedoms from the state, the article will assert that each is incapable of recognising the threat…
Misunderstanding the Internet
The Role of the Intellectual in Liquid Modernity: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
The 85th birthday of Zygmunt Bauman in November 2010 presented the occasion for TCS to publish a special section of commissioned commentary pieces on a number of central themes in his work. The section, edited and introduced by editorial board member Roy Boyne, featured articles by Martin Jay, John Milbank and Julia Hell, and concentrated respectively upon the themes of modernity, the role of the intellectual, and the gaze of/at the other, highli…
Islamophobia, racialisation and the ‘Muslim problem’ in France
This article introduces the special issue on ‘Islamophobia, Racialisation and the “Muslim Problem” in France’. Islamophobia is here understood as (anti-Muslim) racism, with structural and historical dimensions beyond those of individual acts of discrimination or prejudice, and whereby those perceived to be Muslim are systematically racialised as if they are ‘a race’ and as a ‘problem’ to be debated (primarily by the White non-Muslim majority). Th…
Introduction to Michel Maffesoli's 'from Society to Tribal Communities
This article introduces Michel Maffesoli's article 'From Society to Tribal Communities', in which he argues that emerging communities, although post-modern, are not entirely new but archaic and rooted in pre-modernity, and that these tribes are further facilitated by new technological developments such as social media. The introduction summarizes the main argument of the article while contextualizing it within both Maffesoli's wider work and seco…
Press Freedom, Privacy and The Public Sphere
Taking as its starting point the reduction of the News International phone-hacking scandal to a debate on the balance between privacy and press freedom, this article will argue for the recasting of these rights in terms of their mutual significance for the public sphere. After reviewing the history of the legal approach to balancing these two liberal freedoms from the state, the article will assert that each is incapable of recognising the threat…
Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: A response to Downey et al
Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of Stuart Hall’s work on ideology and the media, John Downey, Gavan Titley and Jason Toynbee have recently argued for the urgent need to recover the key dimensions of Hall’s ideology critique. While affirming the need for an effective critique of neoliberalism, this article takes issue with two aspects of Downey et al.’s article: first, their principal claim that ideology critique has been ma…
Islamogauchisme » ? The fallacy and function of an empty signifier
This article introduces the special issue ‘« Islamogauchisme » ? Moral Panics, Culture Wars and the Threat to Academic Freedom’. It begins by outlining the polemic in 2020, whereby the government accused universities of being overrun by so-called ‘Islamogauchistes’, placing this moral panic within the wider French context of ideological redefinitions of laïcité and debates on the compatibility of Islam with the universalism of a secular republic,…
The mainstreaming of the far right in France: Republican, liberal and illiberal articulations of racism
In this interview, Aurelien Mondon and Simon Dawes analyse the mainstreaming of far-right politics. It aims to make sense of Marine Le Pen's rise by putting it in perspective and accounting for the role of the mainstream itself in the process. Building on the research Mondon has undertaken with colleagues, this interview explores in particular the importance of understanding mainstreaming beyond it being the success of the far right or a sign of …
Broadcasting and the public sphere: Problematising citizens, consumers and neoliberalism
Literature on broadcasting regulation in the UK often presents a narrative of decline, from an ethos of public service and citizenship to a neoliberal faith in market logic and the sovereign consumer that undermines the public sphere. Much of this discussion is weakened, however, by a lack of engagement with citizenship and consumption, and the reduction to unitary oppositions of what are actually protean distinctions. This weakness in the litera…
Representing the City: Non-Representation, Digital Archives and Megacity Phenomena
Taking technological developments in urban mapping and the megacity phenomena of rapid change and sprawling space as its starting point, this essay provides a history of the present through a genealogy of maps of Montpellier in France, a rapidly growing modern city that provides examples from the earliest printed maps of the 16th century through to the most recent innovations in public-sponsored 3D mapping. By tracing the shifting correlations of…
Neoliberalism, Voice and National Media Systems: An Interview with Terry Flew
In this interview, Terry Flew discusses the continued relevance of the nation-state and national media systems in an era of globalization, and the need for cross-national comparative research in media studies. He also discusses the benefits of the concepts of ‘voice’ and ‘participation’ over ‘citizenship’ for evaluating media systems, and criticises the overblown and dismissive use of ‘neoliberalism’ as a rhetorical flourish, in favour of develop…
Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech and Counter-Speech
This brief rapid response article considers the French media framing of the Charlie Hebdo attack in terms of 'Republican values' such as free speech, and critiques the post-political and moralistic reduction of debate to 'right and wrong' arguments, as well as the fetishisation of the right to offend and the depoliticisation of the right to be offended
Privacy and the public/private dichotomy
This essay reviews Helen Nissenbaum's Privacy in Context (2010), focusing in particular on her dismissal of the public/private dichotomy. Taking issue with the problem she constructs of 'privacy in public', her unitary reading of the dichotomy and 'socializing' of the value of privacy, or what she calls 'contextual integrity', and her treatment of technology in the abstract, the essay then goes on to argue that the framework she proposes is incap…
Privacy and the public/private dichotomy
This essay reviews Helen Nissenbaum's Privacy in Context (2010), focusing in particular on her dismissal of the public/private dichotomy. Taking issue with the problem she constructs of 'privacy in public', her unitary reading of the dichotomy and 'socializing' of the value of privacy, or what she calls 'contextual integrity', and her treatment of technology in the abstract, the essay then goes on to argue that the framework she proposes is incap…
The Role of the Intellectual in Liquid Modernity: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
The 85th birthday of Zygmunt Bauman in November 2010 presented the occasion for TCS to publish a special section of commissioned commentary pieces on a number of central themes in his work. The section, edited and introduced by editorial board member Roy Boyne, featured articles by Martin Jay, John Milbank and Julia Hell, and concentrated respectively upon the themes of modernity, the role of the intellectual, and the gaze of/at the other, highli…
Gérard Duménil, Dominique Lévy, La grande bifurcation. En finir avec le néolibéralisme
Ce livre met en avant un cadre analytique néomarxiste pour comprendre le néolibéralisme et prolonger la théorie marxiste des classes dans le capitalisme. Après avoir présenté les phases successives du capitalisme jusqu’au néolibéralisme, il se clôt avec la proposition d’une stratégie pour sortir de la crise économique et écologique contemporaine : « celle d’un nouveau compromis de classe à gauche en Europe ». Selon cette perspective néomarxiste, …
Press Freedom, Privacy and The Public Sphere
Taking as its starting point the reduction of the News International phone-hacking scandal to a debate on the balance between privacy and press freedom, this article will argue for the recasting of these rights in terms of their mutual significance for the public sphere. After reviewing the history of the legal approach to balancing these two liberal freedoms from the state, the article will assert that each is incapable of recognising the threat…
Misunderstanding the Internet
Public space, media space
The Invention of News: How the World came to know about Itself
This book traces the development of the European news market, and the transformation of news into a commercial commodity, from the early fifteenth to the early nineteenth century (2). It covers the
Broadcasting and the public sphere: Problematising citizens, consumers and neoliberalism
Literature on broadcasting regulation in the UK often presents a narrative of decline, from an ethos of public service and citizenship to a neoliberal faith in market logic and the sovereign consumer that undermines the public sphere. Much of this discussion is weakened, however, by a lack of engagement with citizenship and consumption, and the reduction to unitary oppositions of what are actually protean distinctions. This weakness in the litera…
Representing the City: Non-Representation, Digital Archives and Megacity Phenomena
Taking technological developments in urban mapping and the megacity phenomena of rapid change and sprawling space as its starting point, this essay provides a history of the present through a genealogy of maps of Montpellier in France, a rapidly growing modern city that provides examples from the earliest printed maps of the 16th century through to the most recent innovations in public-sponsored 3D mapping. By tracing the shifting correlations of…
The Digital Occupation of Gaza: An Interview with Helga Tawil-Souri
In this contribution to a Special Issue on Mediatizing Gaza, the author interviews Helga Tawil-Souri on the significance of digital technology to the Israeli occupation of Gaza. In discussing this, she covers the extent to which Israel’s military, territorial, infrastructural and technological control over Gaza can be considered an occupation and example of settler colonialism. The interview focuses, however, on the processes by which both Israel…
Foucault-phobia and the problem with the critique of neoliberal ideology: A response to Downey et al
Among a spate of recent articles addressing the legacy of Stuart Hall’s work on ideology and the media, John Downey, Gavan Titley and Jason Toynbee have recently argued for the urgent need to recover the key dimensions of Hall’s ideology critique. While affirming the need for an effective critique of neoliberalism, this article takes issue with two aspects of Downey et al.’s article: first, their principal claim that ideology critique has been ma…
On a Critique of Actually Existing Neoliberal Media
The trouble with many critiques of the neoliberalization of the media is that they tend to be more concerned with disparaging neoliberalism than with trying to understand it. More often than not, the term is invoked cursorily and applied as more of a storytelling device than a formally explicated concept as such (16). And although there may be a political necessity to “name neoliberalism,” ostensibly critical accounts that offer grand narratives …
Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech and Counter-Speech
This brief rapid response article considers the French media framing of the Charlie Hebdo attack in terms of 'Republican values' such as free speech, and critiques the post-political and moralistic reduction of debate to 'right and wrong' arguments, as well as the fetishisation of the right to offend and the depoliticisation of the right to be offended
Neoliberalism, Voice and National Media Systems: An Interview with Terry Flew
In this interview, Terry Flew discusses the continued relevance of the nation-state and national media systems in an era of globalization, and the need for cross-national comparative research in media studies. He also discusses the benefits of the concepts of ‘voice’ and ‘participation’ over ‘citizenship’ for evaluating media systems, and criticises the overblown and dismissive use of ‘neoliberalism’ as a rhetorical flourish, in favour of develop…
Introduction to Michel Maffesoli's 'from Society to Tribal Communities
This article introduces Michel Maffesoli's article 'From Society to Tribal Communities', in which he argues that emerging communities, although post-modern, are not entirely new but archaic and rooted in pre-modernity, and that these tribes are further facilitated by new technological developments such as social media. The introduction summarizes the main argument of the article while contextualizing it within both Maffesoli's wider work and seco…
Neoliberalism Studies et Media Studies
Ce bref article propose un panorama des différentes approches théoriques et méthodologiques pour analyser le néolibéralisme. Il s’attache tout spécialement à définir les approches politico-économiques et gouvernementales (et dans quelle mesure elles s’opposent ou se combinent) et plaide en faveur d’une critique du néolibéralisme mieux construite sur le plan théorique et méthodologique dans le champ des Media Studies. En soulignant l’hétérogénéité…
Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge
Couze Venn: Thinking at the limits
Introduction: Michel Serres and Media Theory
This short article introduces the special section, ‘Michel Serres and Media Theory’
From Public Service to Public Interest and Beyond in British Broadcasting Regulation
This article will focus on the evolving rationale for broadcasting regulation and understandings of the national interest in the UK, deconstructing the ongoing reconfiguration of the terms ‘public service’ and ‘public interest’, as well as ‘public control’ and ‘public value’, within regulatory documents, to argue that there has been an increasing marginalisation and reconstruction of the notion of ‘public service’ in favour of an approach that pr…
Islamophobia, racialisation and the ‘Muslim problem’ in France
This article introduces the special issue on ‘Islamophobia, Racialisation and the “Muslim Problem” in France’. Islamophobia is here understood as (anti-Muslim) racism, with structural and historical dimensions beyond those of individual acts of discrimination or prejudice, and whereby those perceived to be Muslim are systematically racialised as if they are ‘a race’ and as a ‘problem’ to be debated (primarily by the White non-Muslim majority). Th…
Voice, Capabilities and the Public Sphere: Assessing the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Media Freedom(s)
Following previous work in applying the capabilities approach to the study of media, communications and culture, this article will consider the merits of applying a capabilities-supplemented account of cultural citizenship for evaluating the legitimacy and efficacy of the public sphere. Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser on the public sphere and Nick Couldry on voice, the article will focus on the extent to which “voice” can be understood as a “…
Special Issue Introduction: Critique, Postcritique and the Present Conjuncture
How might we map the different horizons, questions, topics and concerns that come into view when we bring together the signifiers “critique”, “postcritique” and the “present conjuncture”? The canvas suggested by the question might seem impossibly broad and disorderly, but the different contributions to this special issue of Media Theory share a common desire to confront the question of what critique means today. This editorial introduction identi…
Islamogauchisme » ? The fallacy and function of an empty signifier
This article introduces the special issue ‘« Islamogauchisme » ? Moral Panics, Culture Wars and the Threat to Academic Freedom’. It begins by outlining the polemic in 2020, whereby the government accused universities of being overrun by so-called ‘Islamogauchistes’, placing this moral panic within the wider French context of ideological redefinitions of laïcité and debates on the compatibility of Islam with the universalism of a secular republic,…
The mainstreaming of the far right in France: Republican, liberal and illiberal articulations of racism
In this interview, Aurelien Mondon and Simon Dawes analyse the mainstreaming of far-right politics. It aims to make sense of Marine Le Pen's rise by putting it in perspective and accounting for the role of the mainstream itself in the process. Building on the research Mondon has undertaken with colleagues, this interview explores in particular the importance of understanding mainstreaming beyond it being the success of the far right or a sign of …
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Media studies (6 works)