Soundbite Culture

Introduction - David Slayden and Rita Kirk Willock PART ONE: SMOKE AND MIRRORS MARKETS, PUBLICS, AND CITIZEN-CONSUMERS Giant Sucking Sounds - Rita Kirk Whillock Politics as Illusion Call and Response - David Theo Goldberg Sports, Talk Radio and the Death of Democracy Democratic Delusions - Dale Herbeck The Town Meeting in an Electronic Age PART TWO: CENSORED AND SILENCED ACTS OF RESISTANCE AND POPULISM Reading the Writing on the Wall - Les Back, Michael Keith and John Solomos Grafitti in the Racialized City The Art of Subversive Image Making - Carol Becker Resisting Whiteness - Peter L McLaren Revolutionary Multiculturalism as Counterhegemonic Praxis PART THREE: BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES THE ACADEMY AT THE EDGE OF CIVIL DISCOURSE The Death of Discourse in Our Own (Chat)Room - Peter M Kellet and H L Goodall Jr "Sextext", Skillful Discussion and Virtual Communities Performing Cultural Studies as a Pedagogical Practice - Henry N Giroux Rethinking Harmful Words - Charles N Davis The Demise of the Critical Education Model and Discourse in the Schoolhouse PART FOUR: MASTER AND SLAVE POPULAR MEDIA AND THE SHAPING OF BEHAVIOR Negotiable Realities - David Everett Whillock Chaotic Attractors of Our Understanding Worlds at GWAR - Glenn C Geiser-Getz Celebrations of Juvenile Resistance in Post-Punk Pop Vicarious Realities - David Slayden Internet Discourses and Narratives of the Future