Questions of Method in Cultural Studies

Mimi White · James Schwoch

abr 2008 · Vendido por John Wiley & Sons

Información sobre este eBook

Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies.

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• Covers such topics as the media, feminism, and politics
  
• Identifies what methods have prevailed in the interdisciplinary pursuit of cultural studies
  
• Examines the relationship between cultural studies and traditional disciplines, the politics of knowledge, and spatial and temporal models
  
• Probes the possibility of method in explicit terms for scholars and students in media, communications, sociology and allied fields.

Acerca del autor

Mimi White is Professor of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University. She is author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television (1992) and co-author of Media Knowledge (with James Schwoch and Susan Reilly, 1992).

James Schwoch holds a permanent faculty appointment at Northwestern University, where he conducts research on media history, diplomacy and international relations, science and technology studies, and research methodologies. He is the author of The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900–1939 (1990).