The Essence of Ideological Criticism in Western Marxist Cultural Communication and Media Studies
The convergence of culture studies and mass media study has sparked a new dimension of social criticism,in which ideology has always been an internal key issue and structural mainline.In the culture studies'framework of western Marxism,a series of social trends such as Frankfurt School,Cultural Marxism of UK and the American New Media Movement have clearly demonstrated the ideology of mass media that keeps pace with the times.The new media trends based on the Internet and mobile communication devices have been posing a serious challenge to contemporary culture and its Marxist theoretical-practical prob-lematics.The dialectic perspectives about the cultural ideology should have great reference and enlightenment for Chinese social-ist culture.
western Marxismideologyculture studycommunication and media studies