I am interested in popular culture and media from the interdependent perspectives of
critical cultural studies and political economy. While my focus is advertising and
consumer culture, I am broadly concerned with ideology, consciousness, and politics. I
have been involved in many book projects as author and editor, though currently my
research is expressed in the form of educational video through my work with the Media
Education Foundation.

Articles

Free at Last: Fanship, Fascism and Sponsorship, Journal of Sport and Social Issues (1998)
 

The Struggle For Media Literacy, Journal of Communication (1998)
 

The Politics of Cultural Studies: Racism, Hegemony and Resistance, American Quarterly (1994)
 

Commercial Culture, Collective Values and the Future, Texas Law Review (1993)
 

Communications and the Materialist Conception of History: Marx, Innis and Technology, Continuum: An Australian Journal of the Media and Culture (1993)
 

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Books

The Spectacle of Accumulation: Essays in Media, Culture & Politics (2006)
 

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire (2004)
 

Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream (with Justin Lewis) (1992)
 

Cultural Politics in Contemporary America (1989)
 

The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society (1987)
 

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Contributions to Books

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse, Critical Studies in Media Commercialism (2000)
 

Stuart Hall, The Routledge Dictionary of 20th Century Political Thinkers (1997)
 

Advertising, Social Science Encylcopedia (1996)
 

Affirming Inaction: Television and the New Politics of Race, Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order (1995)
 

Intersections of Discourse: MTV, Sexual Politics and Dreamworlds, Reconceptualizing Audiences (1994)
 

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