> UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATIONS > Refereed journal: Democratic communiqué > > Request for reviewers, February 2012 > > REPLY TO: [log in to unmask] > > Following its transition to an academic open access Internet journal > Democratic Communique is continuing its review section and requests volunteers > to analyze the books listed below. > Volunteers should provide their names, e-mail and physical addresses and a > brief description of their qualifications to execute the review. Attached to > this e-mail is the new guideline for reviewers. > > **Deadline for reviews is 10 weeks from receipt of an item.** > > CULTURAL STUDIES: 'Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.' > Greenwald and Macphee in association with Exit Art. From the cover > description: "Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, New York City, the book is > a visual archive of more than 350 posters from 25 nations." > > CULTURAL STUDIES: 'After the Future: Franco BIFO Berardi.' Gary Genosko & > Nicholas Thoburn, eds. From the cover description: Cyberculture, the last > truly utopian vision of the future, has ended in a crash, and left behind an > ever-growing system of virtual life and actual death." > > CULTURAL STUDIES/HISTORY: 'The Right to Be Lazy(Essays by Paul Lafargue).' > Introduction by Bernard Marszalek. From the cover description: "Re-introducing > the cultural critiques by Karl Marx's son-in-law focusing upon 1890s France." > > CULTURAL STUDIES/HISTORY : You Don't Play with Revolution: The Montreal > Lectures of C.L.R. James." David Austin, ed. From the book cover: "Lectures by > James in the late 1960s covering Rousseau, Shakespeare, Marx and Lenin, and > Heidegger read through the lens of Caribbean history, culture and politics." > > CULTURAL STUDIES/HISTORY: 'Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward > Reader.' Chris Wilbert & Damian F. White, eds. From the book cover: One of the > UK's foremost Anarchist cultural critic's collected works on journalism, > politics and society. > > CULTURAL STUDIES/HISTORY: 'Fela, This Bitch of a Life: The Authorized > Biography of Africa's Musical Genius.' Carlos Moore. From the book cover: > "Profiles Nigerian superstar, composer, singer and musician who died of AIDS > in 1997." > > JOURNALISM: 'What is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the > Crisis of Journalism.' Jack Fuller. From the book cover: "Explores the reasons > for the upheaval in news production." > > JOURNALISM: 'Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse > of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It.' Robert McChesney and Victor > Pickard, eds. From the book cover: "The essential guide to the journalism > crisis." > > MEDIA POLITICS AND SOCIETY: 'Beyond the Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in > the United States.' Jules Boykoff. From the book cover: "Shows the tools used > by government to undermine the viability of opposition (including media) in > the USA." > > MEDIA POLITICS AND SOCIETY 'Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States > in Latin America.' Benjamin Dangl. From the book cover: "Explores the complex > ways that movements and their media have worked with, against and > independently of their governments during the past decade." > > MEDIA POLITICS AND SOCIETY: 'Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited.' > Pippa Norris. From the book cover: "Democratic institutions and media are not > in decline." > > MEDIA POLITICS AND SOCIETY: 'The Propaganda Society: Promotional Culture and > Politics in Global Context.' Gerald Sussman, ed. From the book cover: > "Analyzes the rapid expansion of propaganda and promotional activities in the > leading 'post-industrial' states." > > MEDIA POLITICS AND SOCIETY: 'Academic Repression: Reflections from the > Academic Industrial Complex." Anthony Nocella II, Steven Best & Peter > McLaren, eds. From the book cover: "Essays on free speech, culture wars, and > academic 'freedom' in the post 9/11 era." > > MEDIA HISTORY: 'A Moment of Danger: Critical Studies in the History of U.S. > Communication Since World War II.' Janice Peck and Inger L. Stole, eds. From > the book cover: "Retrieves repressed popular struggles for democratic > communications." > > ********************** > > The Union for Democratic Communications is a group of communications > researchers, theorists, educators, journalists, media producers, policy > analysts, and activists. 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