Anointments and Prestige: Reflecting on #CommunicationSoWhite with Herman Gray and Oscar Gandy

Khadijah Costley White

doi:10.1093/ccc/tcaa008

Anointments and Prestige: Reflecting on #CommunicationSoWhite with Herman Gray and Oscar Gandy

Communication Culture and Critique ◽

10.1093/ccc/tcaa008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 242-248

Author(s):

Khadijah Costley White

Keyword(s):

Media Studies ◽

Professor Emeritus ◽

Santa Cruz ◽

Political Economist ◽

Four Books ◽

Annenberg School ◽

Structural Perspective

Abstract Oscar Gandy, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication and a political economist. He is the author of four books, including Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective (1998), as well as numerous publications. Herman Gray is Professor Emeritus of sociology at UC Santa Cruz. He is the author of the books Watching Race and Cultural Moves, and many other scholarly writings. I spoke with both of them together about #CommunicationSoWhite, asking them as senior black scholars to reflect on contemporary discussions and suggest ways forward in the field of communication and media studies. 1 The interview is edited for brevity and clarity.

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Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now

MediaTropes ◽

10.33137/mt.v7i2.33699 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. i-xvi

Author(s):

Jordan Kinder ◽

Lucie Stepanik

Keyword(s):

Media Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Editorial Introduction ◽

Special Issue ◽

Material Turn ◽

Ecological Relations ◽

The One

In this introduction to the special issue of MediaTropes on “Oil and Media, Oil as Media,” Jordan B. Kinder and Lucie Stepanik provide an account of the stakes and consequences of approaching oil as media as they situate it within the “material turn” of media studies and the broader project energy humanities. They argue that by critically approaching oil and its infrastructures as media, the contributions that comprise this issue puts forward one way to develop an account of oil that further refines the larger tasks and stakes implicit in the energy humanities. Together, these address the myriad ways in which oil mediates social, cultural, and ecological relations, on the one hand, and the ways in which it is mediated, on the other, while thinking through how such mediations might offer glimpses of a future beyond oil.

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Victorian Values

Victoriographies ◽

10.3366/vic.2011.0005 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 36-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dinah Birch

Keyword(s):

John Stuart Mill ◽

Social Thought ◽

Economic Downturn ◽

John Ruskin ◽

Wide Audience ◽

Political Economist ◽

Sensation Novels ◽

Difficult Times

The contested values associated with the term ‘Victorian’ call for fresh and informed consideration in the light of far-reaching changes brought about by the global economic downturn. Victorian writers engaged with public questions that were often associated with the issues we must now address, and their vigorously contentious responses reflect a drive to influence a wide audience with their ideas. Fiction of the period, including the sensation novels of the 1860s, provide telling examples of these developments in mid-Victorian writing; but non-fictional texts, including those of the philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill and the critic John Ruskin, also question the foundations of social thought. As they challenged traditional genre boundaries through the innovative forms that emerged across a range of diverse works, many Victorian authors argued for closer links between the discourses of emotion and those of logic. These are difficult times for researchers and critics, but the stringencies we find ourselves confronting can provide opportunities to create connections of the kind that the Victorians chose to make, bringing together different genres of writing and disciplines of thought, and arguing for a more generous understanding of our responsibilities towards each other.

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