My site now has a short summary of my planned PhD research: Private Lives Lived in Public: Weblogs and Self Performance. I would be interested in what people think of it and I am particularly interested in hearing more about:

• Theories of how producers of alternative media - particularly earlier ones - benefit from being able to perform aspects of themselves hitherto denied them (Clemencia Rodr?guez is my only non-new media source so far).
• Sociological literatures on reflexive self performance (particularly autobiography) Where would be a good place to start with Judith Butler?
• Methodologically, in principle any communication is arguably a form of self performance but some are more clearly self-performative than others. For example I would argue Justin’s video below is intensely self-performative while “I ate corn flakes this morning - I like corn flakes” is less so. Would concentrating on the authors of weblogs at the ‘highly performative’ end of this continuum be a defensible research practice and if so how can I choose them in a consistent fashion?

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I tend to get a lot of student papers (and a fair amount of class discussion) where students seem to have simply swallowed hegemonic theories of the media uncritically. What widely available texts should I suggest students read that engage critically with the hegemony theorists so at least their papers will contain a balanced perspective taking into account countervailing influences like the journalists’ own reflexivity, the (contested but still marginally existent) power of non-commercial mainstream media outlets like the BBC, the ability of people to produce their own alternative media and the classical liberal argument that the market provides sufficient pluralism through competition?

I found Lichtenberg, J. (2000) “In Defence of Objectivity, Revisited” in Mass Media and Society, (Gurevitch, M. and J. Curran eds) (3rd) Arnold, London, pp. 238-254. to be a good start - anything else?

Update: A colleague suggested

• Klaehn, J. (2002) “A Critical Review and Assessment of Herman and Chomsky’s ‘Propaganda Model’”, European Journal of Communication, 17 (2), pp. 147-182
• Curran and Seaton, Power without Responsibility
• Curran, “Rethinking Media and Democracy” in Mass Media and Society (Gurevitch, M. and J. Curran eds)

All of them good choices. Other ideas would still be welcome though.

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So, I’m reading Vince Mosco’s book on political economy of communication (again). He talks about feminism in relation to political economy in general (specifically about Marilyn Waring). But he doesn’t talk much about feminism in relation to the political economy of communication. So I wondered, what would that look like?

Here’s my first guess:

• It would investigate how women are involved in the cycle of production, distribution, and consumption of media products;
• It would investigate, particularly, how gender relations are entwined with power relations within production, distribution, and consumption of media products.
• It might continue to ask how women?s and children?s lives are being transformed by new information flows differently to men?s lives.

Haraway argues that it should go further; that feminist theory should also hold together race, sex/gender, and class together analytically (1991:129, cited in Mosco p239). Mosco suggests this might be done through an analysis of social movements. Taking Mosco’s framework, how are the processes of commodification, spatialisation, and structuration affecting women and children as contrasted to men?

I haven’t seen any real theoretical work on this but I can believe it’s out there. Otherwise a literature review of empirical studies might be very interesting!

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