Josh Shepperd provides Part 1 of 2 to his final entry in the "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series with an examination of Michele Hilmes' contributions to discursive analysis.
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Tags: Birmingham School, communication arts, consumer activism, cultural theory, Discourse, discursive analysis, Douglas Gomery, drift literacy, Habermas, hegemony, historiography, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, madison mafia, Media and Cultural Studies, media literacy, media studies, Michele Hilmes, Network Nations, public, public sphere, publics, radio voices, Richard Hoggart, sound studies, Stuart Hall, transnational
Posted in Columns, Honoring Hilmes | 1 Comment »
Does circulating information influence, inflect, or inhibit material relations in empirically verifiable ways? And do strategic interventions in the super-structural sphere actually promote sustainable social effects?
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Tags: Bakhtin, Birmingham School, Cagney and Lacey, circuit model, circulation, cultural studies, cultural theory, Discourse, emergence, gender, gender and television, Gramsci, industry studies, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Mass Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, media effects, media literacy, media theory, Representation, Richard Johnson, strong effects, Stuart Hall, sublimation, television, television studies, weak effects
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Josh Shepperd's "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series continues with a focus on the contributions of Julie D'Acci to the concepts of emergence and temporality
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Tags: Birmingham School, Cagney and Lacey, Discourse, emergence, gender, industry studies, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, temporality
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As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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Tags: aesthetic turn, cultural studies, cultural turn, Elihu Katz, encoding/decoding, genre, Gordon Allport, Hadley Cantril, historical poetics, Jason Mittell, John Caldwell, John Fiske, John Hartley, Julie D'Acci, Lynn Spigel, media aesthetics, media studies, Narrative Complexity, Office of Radio Research, Paul Lazarsfeld, performance studies, Personal Influence, production studies, Psychology of Radio, radio studies, Raymond Williams, reception studies, Robert Allen, Rockefeller Foundation, Rudolf Arnheim, SCMS, semiotics, sound studies, Stuart Hall, television studies, textual analysis
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What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Birmingham School, david bordwell, Discourse, Foucault, Gramsci, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Media and Cultural Studies, media education, media literacy, Michele Hilmes, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, semiotics, Stuart Hall, television, television studies, understanding popular culture, understanding television
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Part one in a series on "The Wisconsin Discourses."
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Tags: Discourse, John Fiske, Media
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Ten years after John Fiske's retirement from academia, three generations of colleagues and students assess his legacy and ongoing relevance
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Tags: active audiences, conference report, Fiske Matters, Henry Jenkins, John Fiske, Madison
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