This course will enable students to analyze the symbiotic relationship between language and media. It introduces students to the field of media studies (key authors, debates, concepts, methods), with a special focus on the new media and how language is used there. It helps students situate the theories and methods in relation to their lives as media users and audiences, and learn to conduct critical research into and think critically about how the ‘mediation’ of language in the age of the Internet has contributed to new modes of communication.
This book concerns phenomena such as the detachment of science from practical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment. The authors argue that the National Socialist terror was rooted deeply in the fundamental characteristics of Western civilization. They see the self-destruction of Western reason as grounded in a historical and fateful dialectic between the domination of external nature and society. They trace enlightenment, which split these spheres apart, back to its mythical roots. Enlightenment and myth, therefore, are not irreconcilable opposites, but dialectically mediated qualities of both real and intellectual life.
This book illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First published in 1979, the book is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. Bourdieu demonstrates that our different aesthetic choices are all distinctions - that is, choices made in opposition to those made by other classes. He argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.
This book considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. It is an attempt to theorize the tactics and practices by which "ordinary people" subvert the dominant economic order from within. It argues that discipline is continuously deflected and resisted by those who are caught in its "nets," and that their "dispersed, tactical, and makeshift creativity" constitutes an "antidiscipline" which Foucault's analysis ignores.
This book considers the relationship between fans, stars, media texts and media industries. From Beatlemania and Elvis worship, from science fiction fans and Trekkies to Hollywood films about fans, this fascinating collection of essays examines the way in which fandom relates to identity, sexuality and textual production. Its contributors argue for fandom as a complex and contradictory arena for critical enquiry, rather than a subject to be trivialized and dismissed. They also recognize fans as creative and energetic resondents to their often repressive social milieux, and cultural producers in their own right.
This book brings together works from the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, charting both the Center’s relation to the wider intellectual debates within cultural studies as well as the theoretical changes in its approach to its own work during the past decade. The articles in this book are drawn from the first nine issues of the Center’s journal- Working Papers in Cultural Studies. While two introductory articles trace the history and development of cultural studies and the English social development, other articles deal with four main topics- ethnographic work, the media, language, and English studies.
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