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    # # ----- Brett Caraway Audience labor in the new media environment: A Marxian revisiting of the audience commodity Media, Culture & Society July 2011 33: 693-708, doi:10.1177/0163443711404463 ----- Abstract The contemporary dynamics of mass communication necessitate a reassessment of the received notions of audience labor. To that end this article revisits Dallas Smythe’s seminal audience commodity theory through the lens of a two-sided class analysis. A number of his key conceptualizations are critiqued including audience power, audience measurement, media content as a free lunch, audiences as a non-durable producer’s good, the disappearance of labor power, and the revisionist history of capitalist development . At each point in the critique the contributions of various political economists who have revised and extended Smythe’s work are highlighted. The critique serves to underscore the contributions and limitations of the theory as its extension into the new media landscape is reconsidered. audiences audience commodity Dallas Smythe Marxism media economics new media ----- http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/33/5/693.abstract?etoc

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    # # # # # ----- Placed Blame Narratives of Youth Culpability Joby Gardner 1DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA Joby Gardner, School of Education, Department of Leadership, Language, and Curriculum, DePaul University, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-3250, USA Abstract A persistent problem in educational policy and research concerns how social (dis)advantage is reproduced in free societies built on ideologies of equality, opportunity, and social mobility. In this article, the author examines narratives by and for incarcerated young men about how they “got caught up” in illegal activity and eventually incarcerated. Young men and adults supervising them are found to contest choice and culpability in terms of generational and spatial legacies of possibility and social (dis-)advantage. This work is significant for what it suggests about juvenile culpability—specifically, how young people and those around them contest “choice(s)” and, subsequently “blame,” in narratives about childhood and young adulthood. The author argues that historical and geographic contexts frame universes of choices and developmental pathways that are always already present in young people’s lives. In doing so, the author challenges reductive and privatized framings of youth development to suggest a more balanced and comprehensive approach to working with and educating young offenders. social reproduction agency youth development juvenile culpability juvenile justice ----- http://uex.sagepub.com/content/46/4/588.abstract?etoc

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    # # # # # ----- The Relationships Between Human Capital, Implicit Views of Intelligence, and Literacy Performance Implications for the Obama Education Era Rihana S. Williams1⇓ Omer Ari1 Cedrick Dortch1 1Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA Rihana S. Williams, Georgia State University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 5010, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA Email: rihana.s.williams@gmail.com Abstract African American adolescents from families with low levels of human capital (i.e., caregiver level of education) are at risk for poor early adult outcomes. The current study examined the relationships among 48 African American high school students’ literacy performance (e.g., reading and vocabulary), their implicit views of intelligence, their caregivers’ implicit views of intelligence, and their caregivers’ level of education. Results indicated positive correlations between literacy performance and students’ implicit views of intelligence only for those students whose caregivers were not college educated. Implications for investments in human capital in the current political era are discussed. academic achievement adolescent African American students literacy parental involvement poverty school reform ----- http://uex.sagepub.com/content/46/4/563.abstract?etoc

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