Stacy Takacs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacy Takacs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacy |
| FAMILY NAME | Takacs |
| SIGNATURE | TAKACS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2479-2124 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Content Regulation and the American Forces Network
This essay examines the evolving landscape of content regulation within the American Forces Network (AFN), a U.S. Department of Defense broadcaster serving military personnel and their families overseas. Tracing AFN’s historical adherence to commercial broadcasting standards and its complex relationship with military, political, and diplomatic pressures, the essay highlights how content decisions have been shaped by institutional constraints, hos…
The US Military as Cold War Programmer
Interrogating Popular Culture
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing: Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time? What functions does it serve? Method: What is a…
Real War News, Real War Games
Real War News, Real War Games: The Hekmati Case and the Problems of Soft Power Stacy Takacs (bio) When Barack Obama was elected to the presidency in 2008, he promised to implement a "smarter" foreign policy strategy that balanced the use of hard and soft power assets on a situational basis. As if to affirm the demotion of hard power, he jettisoned the name "Global War on Terror" and adopted "Overseas Contingency Operation."1 To speak of "visual c…
Terrorism TV
Burning Bush
Global TV
Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946–1969 JAMES SCHWOCH, 2009. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. xv + 220 pp. $70.00; paper $25.00. James Schwoch's Global TV seeks to fill gaps in the s...
Jessica Lynch and the Regeneration of American Identity and Power Post-9/11
On April 1, 2003, the broken body of Pfc. Jessica Lynch was recovered by the US military from a hospital in Nasariyah, Iraq, where she lay suffering from injuries incurred in a combat-related Humve
Alien-Nation
This article examines recent anti-immigration initiatives, like California's Proposition 187, in light of the contemporary processes of economic and political reorganization that seem to have undermined the viability of the nation state (i.e. the globalization of the market economy and the end of the cold war). It argues that anti-immigration discourse works on a symbolic level to recuperate a coherent sense of national identity in response to th…
Renegotiating Culture and Society in a Global Context
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 1, September 1997
Jessica Lynch and the Regeneration of American Identity and Power Post-9/11
On April 1, 2003, the broken body of Pfc. Jessica Lynch was recovered by the US military from a hospital in Nasariyah, Iraq, where she lay suffering from injuries incurred in a combat-related Humve
Real War News, Real War Games
Real War News, Real War Games: The Hekmati Case and the Problems of Soft Power Stacy Takacs (bio) When Barack Obama was elected to the presidency in 2008, he promised to implement a "smarter" foreign policy strategy that balanced the use of hard and soft power assets on a situational basis. As if to affirm the demotion of hard power, he jettisoned the name "Global War on Terror" and adopted "Overseas Contingency Operation."1 To speak of "visual c…
Burning Bush
Renegotiating Culture and Society in a Global Context
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 1, September 1997
Alien-Nation
This article examines recent anti-immigration initiatives, like California's Proposition 187, in light of the contemporary processes of economic and political reorganization that seem to have undermined the viability of the nation state (i.e. the globalization of the market economy and the end of the cold war). It argues that anti-immigration discourse works on a symbolic level to recuperate a coherent sense of national identity in response to th…
Jessica Lynch and the Regeneration of American Identity and Power Post-9/11
On April 1, 2003, the broken body of Pfc. Jessica Lynch was recovered by the US military from a hospital in Nasariyah, Iraq, where she lay suffering from injuries incurred in a combat-related Humve
Global TV
Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946–1969 JAMES SCHWOCH, 2009. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. xv + 220 pp. $70.00; paper $25.00. James Schwoch's Global TV seeks to fill gaps in the s...
Burning Bush
Terrorism TV
Real War News, Real War Games
Real War News, Real War Games: The Hekmati Case and the Problems of Soft Power Stacy Takacs (bio) When Barack Obama was elected to the presidency in 2008, he promised to implement a "smarter" foreign policy strategy that balanced the use of hard and soft power assets on a situational basis. As if to affirm the demotion of hard power, he jettisoned the name "Global War on Terror" and adopted "Overseas Contingency Operation."1 To speak of "visual c…
Interrogating Popular Culture
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing: Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time? What functions does it serve? Method: What is a…
The US Military as Cold War Programmer
Content Regulation and the American Forces Network
This essay examines the evolving landscape of content regulation within the American Forces Network (AFN), a U.S. Department of Defense broadcaster serving military personnel and their families overseas. Tracing AFN’s historical adherence to commercial broadcasting standards and its complex relationship with military, political, and diplomatic pressures, the essay highlights how content decisions have been shaped by institutional constraints, hos…
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