Hegemony, Agency, and Dialectical Tension in Ellul's Technological Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20299203 |
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| Authors | Rick Clifton Moore (Boise State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 129-144 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1998.tb02763.x |
| OpenAlex | W2066542481 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Recent writers have questioned hegemony theory as a way of understanding the relationship among the citizen, the media, and the state. In this essay I propose the work of Jacques Ellul for reconceptualizing this relationship. Ellul's focus on a technological state and a mass-mediated society presents a powerful alternative to Gramsci's focus. Ellul argued that the modern state is the product of the invasion of technique throughout society. Such an environment demands a form of communication Ellul described as propaganda. This view does not offer great hope for political groups to bring about fundamental social change. Instead, it suggests that the primary role of the social critic is to stand in dialectical tension to the technological state
Agency (philosophy) · Dialectic · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Political theory and Gramsci · Social Media and Politics
Compassion Fatigue
Horizons of the State
Hegemony in a mass‐mediated society
Making sense of common sense
News as a political resource
Public television and the public sphere
The centrality of reciprocity to communication and democracy
Television and the Crisis of Democracy
The Festival in Light of the Theory of the Three Milieus
News Icons and the Mainstreaming of Social Change
The Political System Besieged by the State
Structure and Agency and the Sticky Problem of Culture
Hegemony and Mass Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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