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Overview

Douglas Kellner is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Gender Studies, and Philosophy.

The main topics of Kellner's work include:

  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Media and Politics
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Critical Theory and Philosophy
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media

Kellner's recent papers reflect a range of interests and publication venues:

  • "Trump, Authoritarian Populism, and COVID-19 from a US Perspective" (2021), published in Cultural Politics an International Journal
  • "The Uvalde, Texas school shooting massacre" (2022), appearing in Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • "Marcuse Today: An Introduction" (2021), featured in Theory Culture & Society
  • "Reading Media Culture Politically" (2023), published in Journal of Political Sociology
  • "Apresentação dossiê "100 anos de Paulo Freire": as possibilidades de ser mais!" (2022), in Comunicação & Educação

Among frequent co-authors are Adebowale Akande, Vito Bobek, Modupe Adewuyi, David C. Coker, and José Filipe Pinto, indicating collaborative efforts across several publications.

Kellner has also contributed to several book publications with various publishers:

  • Under Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter:
    • "Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism" (2021)
    • "Media Spectacle in the 21st Century: From the Stolen Election of 2000 to the Trump MAGA Horror Show" (2025)
  • With Emerald Publishing Limited:
    • "Planetary Sociology" (2023)
  • At Peter Lang:
    • "Critical Theory and Pedagogy" (2022)
  • Through Kritische Theorien in der globalen Moderne:
    • "Die Wiederkehr des autoritären Charakters" (2022)

Douglas Kellner's contributions reflect interdisciplinary engagement with critical topics in social sciences, particularly addressing political theory, media, and cultural studies.

Best Publications

  • Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations

    Steven Best;Douglas Kellner

  • New Media and Internet Activism: From the ‘Battle of Seattle’ to Blogging

    Richard Kahn;Douglas Kellner

  • Media and Cultural Studies Keyworks

    Meenakshi Gigi Durham;Douglas M. Kellner

  • The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium

    Steven Best;Douglas Kellner

  • Toward Critical Media Literacy: Core concepts, debates, organizations, and policy

    Douglas Kellner;Jeff Share

  • The Postmodern Turn

    Steven Best;Douglas Kellner

  • Critical theory, Marxism, and modernity

    Douglas Kellner

  • Television and the crisis of democracy

    Douglas Kellner

  • New Technologies/New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium

    Douglas Kellner

  • Critical media literacy is not an option

    Douglas Kellner;Jeff Share

  • Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film

    Michael Ryan;Douglas Kellner

  • Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond

    Douglas Kellner

  • The Persian Gulf TV war

    Douglas Kellner

  • Theorizing Globalization*

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  • Critical Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Reconstruction of Education

    Douglas Kellner;Jeff Share

  • Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach

    Richard Kahn;Douglas Kellner

  • MULTIPLE LITERACIES AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

    Douglas Kellner

  • Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism

    Douglas Kellner

  • Postmodernism as Social Theory: Some Challenges and Problems:

    Douglas Kellner

  • Critical Theory and Society: A Reader

    Stephen Eric Bronner;Douglas Kellner

  • Toward a Critical Theory of Education

    Douglas Kellner

  • Critical Theory and the Culture Industries: A Reassesment

    Douglas Kellner

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse University of California, San Diego
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Andrew Feenberg
Andrew Feenberg Simon Fraser University
Norman K. Denzin
Norman K. Denzin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds
Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren Chapman University
Robert C. Solomon
Robert C. Solomon The University of Texas at Austin
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Allen W. Wood
Allen W. Wood Indiana University
Yvonna S. Lincoln
Yvonna S. Lincoln Texas A&M University

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