Lee Artz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Artz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Artz |
| SIGNATURE | ARTZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University Northwest |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9580-7207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to Protest Special Issue on Palestine
Partisan Journalism: An Ethic for Community, Democracy, and Humanity
Existing Western standards for journalism tout ‘objectivity’ based solely on so-called expert sources: corporate public relations, politicians, government agencies. We know those have been repeatedly shown to be suspect as factual sources. Herman and Chomsky’s (1988) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media offered a political economy-based Propaganda Model – identifying ownership, advertising, sources, PR and lobbying, and …
Conversation with Prof. Lee Artz, Purdue University Northwest
Since Israel’s war on Gaza in the aftermath of the October 2023 attacks, protests have virtually exploded across the world. We see them in Western countries as much as in the ‘Global South’ and the Arab world. In the US, university campuses have become one site of intense protest activity. For this issue’s Protest Voices section, editors Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh interviewed Professor Artz about his reflections on the pro-Palestine campus enca…
Social Media and Social Movements
This contribution assesses the function and use of corporate-run social media, including its efficacy for organizing social movements. An extended critique of Black Lives Matter considers the impact of its social media activities on mitigating racial inequality. Drawing from successful social movements, participatory democracy, mass physical protest, and independence from established political institutions appear as necessary ingredients for cons…
Spectacle and Diversity: Transnational Media and Global Culture
This book shows how transnational media operate in the contemporary world and what their impact is on film, television, and the larger global culture. Where a company is based geographically no longer determines its outreach or output. As media consolidate and partner across national and cultural boundaries, global culture evolves. The new transnational media industry is universal in its operation, function, and social impact. It reflects a share…
A political economy for social movements and revolution: Popular media access, power and cultural hegemony
One key marker of mass social movements transitioning to participatory democratic governance is popular media access. This essay argues that democratic media access by public constituencies becomes a site for constructing social revolution and simultaneously a manifest empirical measure of the extent of democratic participation in the production, distribution, and use of communication with new cultural possibilities. The participatory production …
Neoliberalism and Capital Accumulation: Media Framing of Resistance and the Global Culture of Fear
As neoliberal globalization dramatically increases global inequality, popular resistance erupts in most every nation. Transnational leaders, nation-state politicians, and their accommodating media often frame resistance to fit the rubric of terrorism in an attempt to win mass consent for coercion against rebellious groups. This article presents the example of the Tuareg independence movement in Northern Mali as a case study of how commercial medi…
Animating Transnational Capitalism
Transnational media animation builds consent for global capitalist social relations, including themes of individualism (consistently appearing as self-gratification and self-interest of elite protagonists), deference to authority (repeatedly framing protagonist actions as defense of hierarchies which define acceptable behavior and values), and consumerism (with franchised series and ubiquitous media product tie-ins for audience identity and affil…
Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela
Global Entertainment Media: A Critical Introduction
Telenovelas: Television Stories for Our Global Times
A complete international political economy connects transnational media structures with programming content demonstrating themes and ideologies that promote transnational capitalist social relations, including consumerism, individualism, deference to authority, and a dampening of citizenship. Series melodramas, known internationally as telenovelas, does not appear as a cultural or media response by Latin American cultures resisting American imper…
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media
Banal balance, selective identification and factual omissions: The New York Times coverage of the 2014 War in Gaza
This article employs the lens of media framing to investigate the editorial choices by the New York Times in covering the summer 2014 bombing and invasion of Gaza. Using an extended content analysis of front-page stories published by the New York Times from 8 July when the assault began through 26 August when a semi-stable cease fire was announced, primary explanatory frames, preferred sources and selective evaluations of events are identified. T…
The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony
St Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution
The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has built mass organizations of workers and communities that have erratically challenged class and market relations—verifying that taking political power is difficult but essential to fundamental social change and that capitalist cultural practices complicate the revolutionary process. This work identifies components of state power, separating state apparatus (government) as a crucial site for instituting so…
The righteousness of self-centred royals: The world according to Disney animation
The startling success of Disney animation prompts the perspective for this essay, which explores both a political-economic and cultural studies approach. Understanding Disney animation helps clarify the intimate relationship between ideology and socio-economic practice, (Ricker, 1996; Wasko, 2001). Investigating the construction, content, and persuasive efficacy of animated Disney films reveals that Disney consistently and intentionally selects t…
Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony, The
Cultural Hegemony in the United States
Cultural Hegemony in the United States
"Popular usage equates hegemony with dominance - a meaning far from Antonio Gramsei's original concept where hegemony appears as a contested culture that meets the minimum needs of the majority while serving the interests of the dominant class." "This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form - as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from U.S. history and contemporary cult…
The righteousness of self-centred royals: The world according to Disney animation
The startling success of Disney animation prompts the perspective for this essay, which explores both a political-economic and cultural studies approach. Understanding Disney animation helps clarify the intimate relationship between ideology and socio-economic practice, (Ricker, 1996; Wasko, 2001). Investigating the construction, content, and persuasive efficacy of animated Disney films reveals that Disney consistently and intentionally selects t…
A political economy for social movements and revolution: Popular media access, power and cultural hegemony
One key marker of mass social movements transitioning to participatory democratic governance is popular media access. This essay argues that democratic media access by public constituencies becomes a site for constructing social revolution and simultaneously a manifest empirical measure of the extent of democratic participation in the production, distribution, and use of communication with new cultural possibilities. The participatory production …
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media
Banal balance, selective identification and factual omissions: The New York Times coverage of the 2014 War in Gaza
This article employs the lens of media framing to investigate the editorial choices by the New York Times in covering the summer 2014 bombing and invasion of Gaza. Using an extended content analysis of front-page stories published by the New York Times from 8 July when the assault began through 26 August when a semi-stable cease fire was announced, primary explanatory frames, preferred sources and selective evaluations of events are identified. T…
Cultural Hegemony in the United States
"Popular usage equates hegemony with dominance - a meaning far from Antonio Gramsei's original concept where hegemony appears as a contested culture that meets the minimum needs of the majority while serving the interests of the dominant class." "This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form - as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from U.S. history and contemporary cult…
Cultural Hegemony in the United States
Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony, The
The righteousness of self-centred royals: The world according to Disney animation
The startling success of Disney animation prompts the perspective for this essay, which explores both a political-economic and cultural studies approach. Understanding Disney animation helps clarify the intimate relationship between ideology and socio-economic practice, (Ricker, 1996; Wasko, 2001). Investigating the construction, content, and persuasive efficacy of animated Disney films reveals that Disney consistently and intentionally selects t…
The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony
St Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution
The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela has built mass organizations of workers and communities that have erratically challenged class and market relations—verifying that taking political power is difficult but essential to fundamental social change and that capitalist cultural practices complicate the revolutionary process. This work identifies components of state power, separating state apparatus (government) as a crucial site for instituting so…
Banal balance, selective identification and factual omissions: The New York Times coverage of the 2014 War in Gaza
This article employs the lens of media framing to investigate the editorial choices by the New York Times in covering the summer 2014 bombing and invasion of Gaza. Using an extended content analysis of front-page stories published by the New York Times from 8 July when the assault began through 26 August when a semi-stable cease fire was announced, primary explanatory frames, preferred sources and selective evaluations of events are identified. T…
Animating Transnational Capitalism
Transnational media animation builds consent for global capitalist social relations, including themes of individualism (consistently appearing as self-gratification and self-interest of elite protagonists), deference to authority (repeatedly framing protagonist actions as defense of hierarchies which define acceptable behavior and values), and consumerism (with franchised series and ubiquitous media product tie-ins for audience identity and affil…
Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela
Global Entertainment Media: A Critical Introduction
Telenovelas: Television Stories for Our Global Times
A complete international political economy connects transnational media structures with programming content demonstrating themes and ideologies that promote transnational capitalist social relations, including consumerism, individualism, deference to authority, and a dampening of citizenship. Series melodramas, known internationally as telenovelas, does not appear as a cultural or media response by Latin American cultures resisting American imper…
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age: Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media
Neoliberalism and Capital Accumulation: Media Framing of Resistance and the Global Culture of Fear
As neoliberal globalization dramatically increases global inequality, popular resistance erupts in most every nation. Transnational leaders, nation-state politicians, and their accommodating media often frame resistance to fit the rubric of terrorism in an attempt to win mass consent for coercion against rebellious groups. This article presents the example of the Tuareg independence movement in Northern Mali as a case study of how commercial medi…
A political economy for social movements and revolution: Popular media access, power and cultural hegemony
One key marker of mass social movements transitioning to participatory democratic governance is popular media access. This essay argues that democratic media access by public constituencies becomes a site for constructing social revolution and simultaneously a manifest empirical measure of the extent of democratic participation in the production, distribution, and use of communication with new cultural possibilities. The participatory production …
Spectacle and Diversity: Transnational Media and Global Culture
This book shows how transnational media operate in the contemporary world and what their impact is on film, television, and the larger global culture. Where a company is based geographically no longer determines its outreach or output. As media consolidate and partner across national and cultural boundaries, global culture evolves. The new transnational media industry is universal in its operation, function, and social impact. It reflects a share…
Social Media and Social Movements
This contribution assesses the function and use of corporate-run social media, including its efficacy for organizing social movements. An extended critique of Black Lives Matter considers the impact of its social media activities on mitigating racial inequality. Drawing from successful social movements, participatory democracy, mass physical protest, and independence from established political institutions appear as necessary ingredients for cons…
Conversation with Prof. Lee Artz, Purdue University Northwest
Since Israel’s war on Gaza in the aftermath of the October 2023 attacks, protests have virtually exploded across the world. We see them in Western countries as much as in the ‘Global South’ and the Arab world. In the US, university campuses have become one site of intense protest activity. For this issue’s Protest Voices section, editors Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh interviewed Professor Artz about his reflections on the pro-Palestine campus enca…
Partisan Journalism: An Ethic for Community, Democracy, and Humanity
Existing Western standards for journalism tout ‘objectivity’ based solely on so-called expert sources: corporate public relations, politicians, government agencies. We know those have been repeatedly shown to be suspect as factual sources. Herman and Chomsky’s (1988) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media offered a political economy-based Propaganda Model – identifying ownership, advertising, sources, PR and lobbying, and …
Introduction to Protest Special Issue on Palestine
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Hegemony (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Democracy (5 works)