Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies by Nick Couldry (Eng

Description: Inside Culture by Nick Couldry Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies. Nick Couldry argues without apology for cultural studies as a discipline centred around the interrelations of culture and power, with a clear focus on accountable empirical research that deals with the real complexities of contemporary lives - inside' culture. Chapters discuss the broad conceptual issues around cultures', texts', the self', and the individual. There are detailed discussions of a range of cultural studies authors which demystify the elaborate language of contemporary cultural studies, with suggestions for further thinking at the end of chapters. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies. Nick Couldry argues without apology for cultural studies as a discipline centred around the interrelations of culture and power, with a clear focus on accountable empirical research that deals with the real complexities of contemporary lives - `inside culture.Chapters discuss the broad conceptual issues around `cultures, `texts, `the self, and the individual. There are detailed discussions of a range of cultural studies authors which demystify the elaborate language of contemporary cultural studies, with suggestions for further thinking at the end of chapters. Author Biography Nick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and from 2017 has been a Faculty Associate at Harvards Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is the co-founder of a website which encourages dialogue on data colonialism with scholars and activists from Latin America. He jointly led, with Clemencia Rodriguez, the chapter on media and communications in the 22 chapter 2018 report of the International Panel on social Progress. He is the author or editor of fifteen books including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, Polity, 2016), Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters (Sage 2010). His latest books are The Costs of Connection (with Ulises Ali Mejias, Stanford UP 2019), Media: Why It Matters (Polity 2019), and Media Voice Space and Power: Essays of Refraction (Routledge 2020). Table of Contents IntroductionQuestions of Value, or Why Do Cultural Studies?The Individual `in′ CultureQuestioning the TextBeyond `Cultures′Accounting for the `Self′The Future of Cultural StudiesCommunity without Closure Review `This is a bracing and enjoyable book. Couldry provides a fresh and new perspective on cultural studies. Inside Culture will be of great interest to readers unfamilar with the field, and poses challenging questions to those who know cultural studies well′ - Angela McRobbie`Inside Culture offers a theoretically compelling, politically courageous, and pedagogically invaluable contribution to the growing literature on cultural studies. This is an inspired and inspiring book and should be read by everyone concerned about not only cultural studies and the politics of culture, but also about the fate of individual and social agency in a rapidly changing cultural and economic global context′ - Henry A Giroux, Penn State University Review Quote This is a bracing and enjoyable book. Couldry provides a fresh and new perspective on cultural studies. Inside Culture will be of great interest to readers unfamilar with the field, and poses challenging questions to those who know cultural studies well - Angela McRobbieInside Culture offers a theoretically compelling, politically courageous, and pedagogically invaluable contribution to the growing literature on cultural studies. This is an inspired and inspiring book and should be read by everyone concerned about not only cultural studies and the politics of culture, but also about the fate of individual and social agency in a rapidly changing cultural and economic global context - Henry A Giroux, Penn State University Details ISBN0761963863 Author Nick Couldry Short Title INSIDE CULTURE Pages 176 Language English ISBN-10 0761963863 ISBN-13 9780761963868 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2000 Edition 1st Birth 1958 Illustrations black & white illustrations Residence US Affiliation Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States Subtitle Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies DOI 10.1604/9780761963868 UK Release Date 2000-05-03 NZ Release Date 2000-05-03 US Release Date 2000-05-03 Publisher SAGE Publications Inc Publication Date 2000-05-03 Alternative 9780761963851 DEWEY 306 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2010-11-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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