Hegemony examines leadership sustained through institutions, alliances, organised consent, and coercive capacity. Communication analysis traces how definitions become normal across education, professional practice, media, and resource decisions. Shared vocabulary alone does not establish hegemony; the connections supporting a particular configuration of power require evidence.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainVoice, Silence & Power
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.