To start with, I’m not even sure I would continue to call popular cultural studies the study of the culture of the working class, and my reluctance to do so underlies my entire argument about what is the current status of the mass and the pop. The culture studies of the 1970s, with its focus on the working class, is not truly adequate to explain the ways in which culture is experienced and produced in modern American society.
Tag: reception studies
Being Methodological in Audience Studies: Applying Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology
I’ve shared in previous posts (here and here) thoughts from my PhD candidacy exam. In this post, I share my thoughts on being methodological when it comes…… Read more “Being Methodological in Audience Studies: Applying Brenda Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology”
Identification with Favorite Media Personae
I presented this study at my first International Communication Association conference in May 2005. It was the first major study I did by myself in graduate school. I…… Read more “Identification with Favorite Media Personae”
Gendering Robots 2005 Research Proposal
Recently, the question of how we attribute gender to asexual entities like robots and AI has been something I have been pondering more and more. How we…… Read more “Gendering Robots 2005 Research Proposal”
Making Sense of Cinema Anthology
Edited by Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and myself, Bloomsbury Academic will release Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship on February…… Read more “Making Sense of Cinema Anthology”
My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies
Along with my thoughts on the encoding-decoding-recoding model, what follows comes from my dissertation on gendered media engagings and describes how I consider the fundamental elements of…… Read more “My Philosophy of Media Reception Studies”
An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies
This blog posts continues the dissection of my dissertation that I began by introducing the topic of gendered media engagings earlier this year. This post focuses on…… Read more “An Encoding-Decoding-Recoding Model of Media Studies”
An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Two
Day 2: Sunday, June 22nd On the topic of mass… I am still uncomfortable joining in on the spiritual sessions and Catholic Eucharist ceremonies that are scheduled…… Read more “An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Two”
The Whats, Hows and Whys of Film Spectatorship
Earlier this month, Christopher Olson and I presented at the 2013 SCMS conference work I started in my graduate school and he is helping me finalize and…… Read more “The Whats, Hows and Whys of Film Spectatorship”
Minutia reception analysis
Methods for understanding the moment-by-moment reception of interactive media Oftentimes in media studies that focus on understanding media reception by the audience or the user, there is…… Read more “Minutia reception analysis”
