AUTHOR=Bergman Tabe TITLE=“Old-New” Directions in Political Communication: Taking Michael Parenti's Media Criticism as a Guide JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication VOLUME=4 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00023 DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2019.00023 ISSN=2297-900X ABSTRACT=

In this essay I outline where I think the academic study of political communication should go—or rather, return to. First I discuss existing limitations and weaknesses of the current subfield of political communication, after which I highlight the work of political scientist Michael Parenti as an example of scholarship that I would like to see more of. In the Conclusion I summarize my main points and specify what I think should be priorities for scholars of political communication, as the world moves forward through these precarious times for democracy, justice, and even species survival.