…if the humanities specifically and higher education in general are to renew their public commitments to global democracy they must offer students the knowledge and technological tools to develop multiple forms of literacy and be skilled not just as critical readers of texts but also as cultural producers able to use the new technologies to provide alternatives to the deadening silences and misrepresentations produced through official channels of communication both within and outside of higher education.
—Henry Giroux, “Democracy’s Nemesis: The Rise of the Corporate University.”
in Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, 2009