MEDIACTIVE ideas/knowledge/culture |
Jonathan Rutherford (ed) 
Contributors: Clare Birchall, Lynda Dyson, Alan Finlayson,
Andrew Goffey, Gary Hall, Glenn Rikowski,
Jonathan Rutherford (see editorial)
The first issue of Mediactive begins where its contributors find themselves:
at the centre of the revolutionary changes in the provision of public forms
of education in the UK. Neo-liberal inspired policies are marketising and
commodifying education and transforming traditional ideas and practices
of knowledge creation and academic life. These changes are paradigmatic
and call for a rethinking of our intellectual work. We need to both understand
the new conditions we are working in and create a language and politics
which can reassert the value of knowledge and education as public goods.
The issue includes an analysis of the nature of knowledge, discussion on New Labour and the Knowledge Economy, Cultural Studies, the commodification of education and news journalism, new thoughts on science and culture, and a rethinking of intellectual work in the digital age.
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