CS322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mars Cube One, Watching Movies, Political Economy

• School: WLU
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CS322
• Professor: Anne- Marie Kinahan

Document Summary

Study of culture is on how people receive media, and the pleasure that individuals derive from reading magazines, watching movies, or any kind of popular media we participate in on a daily basis. In doing this, we derive pleasure and meaning; by participating it makes one a consumer: looking at how people ingest media is one level, but on the flip side is looking at the production. Production is the structure of our society; create the content of our society. Vincent moscow, (cid:862)i dece(cid:374)tre the (cid:373)edia , less concerned with the content of the media than the structure. Political economy at its worst there is no political agency, indv. as consumers have no ability to react or resist anything at all: cultural studies at its worse, no value / grounding. We need to understand communication as culture. Making issues of sex and gender visual: macro level analysis is blind to the specific little aspects of lived experiences.