Global media and technological change: Social justice,recognition and the meaningfulness of everyday life

This article argues that the technological development and globalisation of the media has important implications for questions of cultural citizenship. In particular these questions are explored through an enduring set of ‘cultural’ issues that might be connected to questions of social justice, recognition and hermeneutic concerns with meaningfulness. These questions arguably pose more fundamental questions for critical theory than those traditionally associated with either issues of media bias or the fragmentation of the post‐modern subject.