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Professor of International Studies and Urban Studies and Planning

Gerald (Gerry) Sussman is professor of urban studies and international studies at Portland State
University. His Ph.D. is in international political economy and comparative politics. Professor
Sussman’s work is centered on the political economy of development, communications and
politics, and political analysis of globalization. He has published 6 books and many journal
articles and edited book chapters to date and is currently working on a book manuscript
comparing UK and US politics, public policy, and electioneering practices.

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Gerald (Gerry) Sussman is professor of urban studies and international studies at Portland State
University. His Ph.D. is in international political economy and comparative politics. Professor
Sussman’s work is centered on the political economy of development, communications and
politics, and political analysis of globalization. He has published 6 books and many journal
articles and edited book chapters to date and is currently working on a book manuscript
comparing UK and US politics, public policy, and electioneering practices.

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Articles (7)

Making Enemies: the Mainstream Media Spectacle and US Foreign Policy

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (2020)

As Herbert Schiller long ago observed, the mainstream (corporate) media (MSM) in the US have long been instruments of state ...

Nineteenth-Century Telegraphy: Wiring the Emerging Urban Corporate Economy

Media History (2016)

Nineteenth-century telegraphy had a vital integrative role in the intersecting and mutually constituted developments of American industrialization, urbanization, and mediatization. ...

The Neoliberal Politics of “Smart”: Electricity Consumption, Household Monitoring, and ...

Canadian Journal of Communication (2015)

Anthony M. Levenda, Dillon Mahmoudi and Gerald Sussman

This article investigates how digital technologies in the energy sector are enabling increased value extraction in the cycle of capital ...

The Growth of TV News, the Demise of the journalism ...

Media, Culture & Society (2013)

In response to the dearth of critical literature on the transformation of local news ownership structure and the impacts of ...

Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange

Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (2012)

Informed by the works of Marx and his progeny (Lukács, Gramsci, Althusser) as well as more recent marxian scholarship, the ...

Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange

Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (2012)

Informed by the works of Marx and his progeny (Lukács, Gramsci, Althusser) as well as more recent marxian scholarship, the ...

Covering Eastern European and Russian Elections: the US Media’s ...

Global Media and Communication (2007)

The study of American media coverage of foreign affairs is of distinct importance for at least three reasons. As a world ...

Contribution to Book

Labor in the Age of Digital (Re)Production

Political Economy of Media Industries Global Transformations and Challenges (2019)

Chapter 12 of the book Political Economy of Media Industries Global Transformations and Challenges in Part III - New and ...

Contribution to Book

RussiaGate: The Construction of Enemy

Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change (2019)

"This book brings together a list of researchers in international communication and global media studies to revisit, renew and advance ...

Contribution to Book

The US Media, State Legitimacy, and the New Cold War

Media, Ideology and Hegemony (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) (2018)

Media, Ideology and Hegemony contains a range of topics that provide readers with opportunities to think critically about the new ...

Contribution to Book

Propaganda as Production

Marx and the Political Economy of the Media (2016)

More than 130 years after Karl Marx's death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum 'Capital : ...

Contribution to Book

The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism

The Routledge companion to labor and media (2016)

Gerald Sussman and Carey Lynne Higgins-Dobney

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that ...

Contribution to Book

The U.S. Media and the World

Media and Left (2015)

This volume applies a critical lens to our understanding of how mass communication impacts our understanding of and potential for ...

Contribution to Book

Interview with Dr. John A. Lent (with Michelle Amazeen)

Key thinkers in critical communication scholarship : from the pioneers to the next generation (2015)

Interview with Dr. John A. Lent (with Michelle Amazeen).

Contribution to Book

Systemic Propaganda and State Branding in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe

Branding Post-Communist Nations : Marketizing National Identities in the "new" Europe (2012)

Promises and problems of post-communist nation branding -- Nation branding in post-commuist Europe: identities, markets, and democracy / Nadia Kaneva -- Systemic propaganda and state branding in post-Soviet ...

Contribution to Book

A Regime of Propaganda: The Systemic Bases of Promotional Political ...

The Political Economy of Media and Power (2010)

Contributors cut through media spectacle and make visible the intersections between mass media and the politics of power in the contemporary social world.

Contribution to Book

Urban Congregations of Capital and Communications: Redesigning Social and Spatial ...

In search of boundaries : communication, nation-states, and cultural identities (2002)

The infrastructure of information and communication technology (ICT) has coevolved with industry and transportation as a central property of the metropolis, ...

Contribution to Book

Global Productions

Global productions : labor in the making of the "information society" (1998)

This book is an attempt to deconstruct the commodity fetish of communication and information technology by revealing the embedded labor ...

The Propaganda Society : Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context

Part 1: Propaganda in the media -- Part 2: Propaganda in popular culture -- Part 3: Propagandafor global hegemony -- Part 4: Propaganda and the state."The Propaganda Society analyzes the rapid expansion ...

Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe

The regime of propaganda -- The "democracy" brand of empire : historical contexts -- The infrastructure and instruments of democracy promotion -- Democracy promotion in Central and Eastern Europe -- ...

Global Electioneering : Campaign Consulting, Communications, and Corporate Financing

Political communication in the neoliberal era -- Managing the electorate and the public sphere -- Campaign professionals and the tools of their trade -- ...

Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age

How do politics influence communication technology? What forces shape technological enterprise? How do politics, society, and technology intersect? To answer ...