Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics: An Introduction / Sean Phelan and Lincoln Dahlberg -- Discourse Theory as Critical Media Politics? Five Questions / Lincoln Dahlberg -- From Media to Mediality: Mediatic (Counter-)Apparatuses and the Concept of the Political in Communication Studies / Oliver Marchart -- What Does Democracy Feel Like? Form, Function, Affect, and the Materiality of the Sign / Jeremy Gilbert -- Ideology and Politics in the Popular Press: The Case of the 2009 UK MPs' Expenses Scandal / Wei-yuan Chang & Jason Glyn -- The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment: Articulating Laclau's Discourse Theory with Bourdieu's Field Theory / Sean Phelan -- Post-Marx beyond Post-Marx: Autonomism and Discourse Theory / Jack Zeljko Bratich -- Multiplicity, Autonomy, New Media, and the Networked Politics of New Social Movements / Natalie Fenton -- Mediated Construction of the People: Laclau's Political Theory and Media Politics / Jon Simons -- Mobilizing Discourse Theory for Critical Media Politics: Obstacles and Potentials / Peter Dahlgren
