Nicholas Garnham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Garnham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Garnham |
| SIGNATURE | GARNHAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 389 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Media and the Public Sphere
It is a commonplace to assert that public communication lies at the heart of the democratic process; that citizens require equal access also to sources of information and equal opportunities to participate in the debates from which political decisions rightly flow. This chapter argues that it follows that changes in media structure and media policy, whether these stem from economic developments or from public intervention, are properly political …
Économie politique et cultural studies: Réconciliation Ou Divorce
Ce texte est la traduction d'un article de Nicholas Garnham publié en 1995 dans la revue Critical Studies in Mass Communication . L'auteur considère que l'antagonisme profond entre économie politique et cultural studies peut être surmonté à condition que les cultural studies renoncent à l'accusation d'économisme et de réductionnisme formulée à l'égard de l'économie politique. Il invite néanmoins les chercheurs des cultural studies à prendre davan…
Revisiting the Political Economy of Communication
This tripleC contribution is based on a research seminar that took place at the University of Westminster on January 22, 2014. It featured a conversation with Nicholas Garnham that was chaired by Christian Fuchs. We publish here both the audio-recording as well as a printed version, for which the audio version acted as foundation, but that was entirely re-written.The task of the paper and the seminar was to revisit some of Nicholas Garnham’s idea…
The Political Economy of Communication Revisited
This chapter contains sections titled: The Development of the Political Economy of Culture The Culture Industries, Cultural Labor, and the Cultural Commodity The Cultural Commodity and Cultural Demand From the Political Economy of Culture to the Political Economy of Information The Political Economy of the Information Society (PEIS) Telecommunications and the Culture Industries Information Economics Technologies of Freedom and the “Third Wave” Th…
Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture: An introduction
Bourdieu, o arbitrário cultural e a televisão
A proposta central deste ensaio é levantar o questionamento das implicações da teoria de Bourdieu para o desenvolvimento de um projeto político na prática. Ao examinar esta questão, o autor utiliza a teledifusão (tv broadcasting), como um campo de prática cultural, e a política desse campo como exemplo. Ele questiona se os desenvolvimentos neste campo central da prática cultural contemporânea são congruentes com a análise geral de Bourdieu da prá…
Habermas and the public sphere
It is now over 20 years since Habermas’ concept of the public sphere was introduced to Anglo-Saxon media studies, since when it has undoubtedly become and, on the evidence of the books under review, continues to be a major thematic perspective in media analysis. Over that period Habermas’ original conception of the public sphere, as stated in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere has been subjected to a number of critiques which are …
Culture Industries
Culture industries is a term which performs both a descriptive and conceptual function. It also has a history. Since the term was coined by Horkheimer and Adorno in their 1947 essay “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” both what the term designates and its theoretical implications have undergone a number of shifts
A personal intellectual memoir
From cultural to creative industries: An analysis of the implications of the “creative industries” approach to arts and media policy making in the United Kingdom
This article analyses the cultural policy implications in the United Kingdom of a shift in terminology from cultural to creative industries. It argues that the use of the term "creative industries" can only be understood in the context of information society policy. It draws its political and ideological power from the prestige and economic importance attached to concepts of innovation, information, information workers and the impact of informati…
"A Response to Elizabeth Jacka's "Democracy as Defeat
Patronage, Politics and the Modernization of Leisure in Northern England: The case of Alnwick's Shrove Tuesday football match
Reaching for my revolver. Problems with the concept of culture
The definition of the term culture has become so vague as to be almost synonymous with human life; as an analytic term it has become nearly valueless. Of course, it can be used as a description of artistic activity, but this also becomes dubious when applied to popular mass culture. Culture often carries a sense of superior ethical values, but this too declines into confusion when multiculturism is opposed to culture as a whole
‘Information Society’ as Theory or Ideology: A Critical Perspective in Technology, Education and Employment in the Information Age
This paper argues that the concept of Information Society fails as theory because it is internally incoherent and unsupported by evidence. Its current popularity within policy discourse can only be understood ideologically. In particular it is argued that one of the drivers of current policy towards higher education is based upon the supposed growth of knowledge work linked to a theory of human capital formation as crucial to international compet…
Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity
"The book argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment. In a series of probes into different sets of questions raised by the media, the argument of the book focuses on the problem raised by what Kant called the unsocial sociability of human kind. Under what conditions could autonomous, free individuals live in viable social communities. Or t…
Emancipation, the media, and modernity: Arguments about the media and social theory
Introduction: The media, emancipation and modernity Media histories, media theories and modernity The Media as Cultural Industries The Media as Technologies Media Producers Audiences: Interpretation and consumption Culture, Ideology and Aesthetics Media and Politics Bibliography
La théorie de la société de l'information en tant qu'idéologie: Une Critique
Sommes-nous réellement en train d'entrer, avec la « révolution » des technologies de l'information et de la communication et la mondialisation qu'elle favorise, dans une nouvelle ère économique, sociale, politique et culturelle ? L'essor généralisé des « réseaux » va-t-il radicalement modifier les logiques économiques, la structure de l'entreprise, la nature du travail, les besoins en qualifications et les rapports de classe ? Les autoroutes de l…
Information Society Theory as Ideology: A Critique
The serious, concentrated analysis and critique of Information Society theory has been placed unavoidably at the centre of the concerns of scholars of communication by history itself. It is the dominant ideology of the current historical period. It raises questions which are unavoidable for anyone who wishes to understand the relationship between the structures and processes of social communication and social structure and processes more generall…
Political Economy and the Practice of Cultural Studies
Reply to Grossberg and Carey
Political economy and cultural studies: Reconciliation or divorce
The author considers that the profound antagonism between political economy and cultural studies can be overcome provided cultural studies stop accusing political economy of economism and reductionism. He nevertheless calls for researchers in cultural studies to better take into consideration economic determinations in their theorization of power in relation to culture, and not to be too quick to reject possibilities of false consciousness of ind…
The media and narratives of the intellectual
The Broadcasting Market and the Future of the BBC
Le développement du service public dans les télécommunications et la radiodiffusion au Royaume-Uni
Based on a case study of the British model, this article retraces the history and development in Europe of the notion of a public service for telecommunications and broadcasting. In the first part, devoted to telecommunications, the authors compare the development of the concept of a public service in the UK and the USA in order to determine the institutional and statutory models used to implement this concept. They also develop the further conce…
The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World
Research Article| May 01 1993 The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 251–265. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Garnham; The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World. Pu…
From cultural to creative industries: An analysis of the implications of the “creative industries” approach to arts and media policy making in the United Kingdom
This article analyses the cultural policy implications in the United Kingdom of a shift in terminology from cultural to creative industries. It argues that the use of the term "creative industries" can only be understood in the context of information society policy. It draws its political and ideological power from the prestige and economic importance attached to concepts of innovation, information, information workers and the impact of informati…
The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World
Research Article| May 01 1993 The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 251–265. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Garnham; The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World. Pu…
Public Service versus the Market
Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture: An introduction
The regulating mechanism Bourdieu proposes is the habitus (ibid.: 7295). This he describes as ‘the strategy-generating principle enabling agents to cope with unforeseen and ever-changing situations...a system of lasting, transposable dispositions which, integrating past experiences, functions at every moment as a matrix of perceptions, appreciations and actions and makes possible the achievement of infinitely diversified tasks, thanks to the anal…
Contribution to a political economy of mass-communication
Information Society Theory as Ideology: A Critique
The serious, concentrated analysis and critique of Information Society theory has been placed unavoidably at the centre of the concerns of scholars of communication by history itself. It is the dominant ideology of the current historical period. It raises questions which are unavoidable for anyone who wishes to understand the relationship between the structures and processes of social communication and social structure and processes more generall…
Habermas and the public sphere
It is now over 20 years since Habermas’ concept of the public sphere was introduced to Anglo-Saxon media studies, since when it has undoubtedly become and, on the evidence of the books under review, continues to be a major thematic perspective in media analysis. Over that period Habermas’ original conception of the public sphere, as stated in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere has been subjected to a number of critiques which are …
La théorie de la société de l'information en tant qu'idéologie: Une Critique
Sommes-nous réellement en train d'entrer, avec la « révolution » des technologies de l'information et de la communication et la mondialisation qu'elle favorise, dans une nouvelle ère économique, sociale, politique et culturelle ? L'essor généralisé des « réseaux » va-t-il radicalement modifier les logiques économiques, la structure de l'entreprise, la nature du travail, les besoins en qualifications et les rapports de classe ? Les autoroutes de l…
The media and narratives of the intellectual
The Broadcasting Market and the Future of the BBC
Extended Review: Bourdieu's Distinction: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
The cultural commodity
"A Response to Elizabeth Jacka's "Democracy as Defeat
Telecommunications policy in the United Kingdom
Économie politique et cultural studies: Réconciliation Ou Divorce
Ce texte est la traduction d'un article de Nicholas Garnham publié en 1995 dans la revue Critical Studies in Mass Communication . L'auteur considère que l'antagonisme profond entre économie politique et cultural studies peut être surmonté à condition que les cultural studies renoncent à l'accusation d'économisme et de réductionnisme formulée à l'égard de l'économie politique. Il invite néanmoins les chercheurs des cultural studies à prendre davan…
Patronage, Politics and the Modernization of Leisure in Northern England: The case of Alnwick's Shrove Tuesday football match
The internationalisation of television
Raymond Williams, 1921-1988: A Cultural Analyst, a Distinctive Tradition
Working “outside the institutional bases of communication studies, ..outside and in a critical relation to the normal defining paradigms of the discipline, ..be built, virtually single-banded, the foundations for the distinctive tradition of British media and cultural studies and remained until his death by far its most distinguished and influential exponent
Debate: Subjectivity, Ideology, Class and Historical Materialism
Journal Article Debate: Subjectivity, Ideology, Class and Historical Materialism Get access Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 20, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 121–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/20.1.121 Published: 01 March 1979
TV Documentary and Ideology
Journal Article TV Documentary and Ideology Get access Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 2, Summer 1972, Pages 109–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.2.109 Published: 01 July 1972
A personal intellectual memoir
Le développement du service public dans les télécommunications et la radiodiffusion au Royaume-Uni
Based on a case study of the British model, this article retraces the history and development in Europe of the notion of a public service for telecommunications and broadcasting. In the first part, devoted to telecommunications, the authors compare the development of the concept of a public service in the UK and the USA in order to determine the institutional and statutory models used to implement this concept. They also develop the further conce…
Politics and. the mass media in Britain: The strange case of Dr Blumler
TV Documentary and Ideology
Journal Article TV Documentary and Ideology Get access Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 2, Summer 1972, Pages 109–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.2.109 Published: 01 July 1972
Reply to Thierry Kuntzel's 'The Treatment of Ideology in the Textual Analysis of Film
Journal Article Reply to Thierry Kuntzel's ‘The Treatment of Ideology in the Textual Analysis of Film’ Get access Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 14, Issue 3, Autumn 1973, Pages 55–58, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/14.3.55 Published: 01 October 1973
Towards a political economy of Culture
Contribution to a political economy of mass-communication
The cultural commodity
Politics and. the mass media in Britain: The strange case of Dr Blumler
Debate: Subjectivity, Ideology, Class and Historical Materialism
Journal Article Debate: Subjectivity, Ideology, Class and Historical Materialism Get access Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 20, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 121–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/20.1.121 Published: 01 March 1979
The Case of RAI
Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture: An introduction
The regulating mechanism Bourdieu proposes is the habitus (ibid.: 7295). This he describes as ‘the strategy-generating principle enabling agents to cope with unforeseen and ever-changing situations...a system of lasting, transposable dispositions which, integrating past experiences, functions at every moment as a matrix of perceptions, appreciations and actions and makes possible the achievement of infinitely diversified tasks, thanks to the anal…
Toward a Theory of Cultural Materialism
Public Service versus the Market
Telecommunications policy in the United Kingdom
Extended Review: Bourdieu's Distinction: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Concepts of culture: Public policy and the cultural industries
(1987). Concepts of culture: Public policy and the cultural industries. Cultural Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 23-37
Kulturnationalisme og internationalisme. De audiovisuelle medier og verdensmarkedet
Nicholas Garnham fremstod på Årsmødet i Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark, som medie- og kulturpolitikkens Darwin: En fortaler for defaitisme og laissez-faire på medieområdet. Når man i mere ro og mag kan fordøje hans foredrag i skriftlig form, får man forhåbentlig øje på flere nuancer - men de foruroligende provokationer er der stadig: En medieforsker, der på klart marxistisk grundlag hudfletter "de progressive kræfters" selvmodsigende…
Raymond Williams, 1921-1988: A Cultural Analyst, a Distinctive Tradition
Working “outside the institutional bases of communication studies, ..outside and in a critical relation to the normal defining paradigms of the discipline, ..be built, virtually single-banded, the foundations for the distinctive tradition of British media and cultural studies and remained until his death by far its most distinguished and influential exponent
The internationalisation of television
The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World
Research Article| May 01 1993 The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World Nicholas Garnham Nicholas Garnham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 251–265. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-2-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nicholas Garnham; The Mass Media, Cultural Identity, and the Public Sphere in the Modern World. Pu…
The Broadcasting Market and the Future of the BBC
Le développement du service public dans les télécommunications et la radiodiffusion au Royaume-Uni
Based on a case study of the British model, this article retraces the history and development in Europe of the notion of a public service for telecommunications and broadcasting. In the first part, devoted to telecommunications, the authors compare the development of the concept of a public service in the UK and the USA in order to determine the institutional and statutory models used to implement this concept. They also develop the further conce…
Reply to Grossberg and Carey
Political economy and cultural studies: Reconciliation or divorce
The author considers that the profound antagonism between political economy and cultural studies can be overcome provided cultural studies stop accusing political economy of economism and reductionism. He nevertheless calls for researchers in cultural studies to better take into consideration economic determinations in their theorization of power in relation to culture, and not to be too quick to reject possibilities of false consciousness of ind…
The media and narratives of the intellectual
Political Economy and the Practice of Cultural Studies
Information Society Theory as Ideology: A Critique
The serious, concentrated analysis and critique of Information Society theory has been placed unavoidably at the centre of the concerns of scholars of communication by history itself. It is the dominant ideology of the current historical period. It raises questions which are unavoidable for anyone who wishes to understand the relationship between the structures and processes of social communication and social structure and processes more generall…
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