I had to read this for a graduate class for my M.Ed. in Education. Through dialogue between three researchers in the field of digital media, it explores important questions about how participatory culture has been transformed by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. I appreciated the balanc...
Before I start, may I say that I love the jacket on this? Beautiful snow blue lettering on black - rich and ethereal at the same time.Content-wise, this collection was better than I expected. I was very interested in reading it but when it arrived and I saw that most of the essays were written by MI...
Read about 6 of these essays, including the two opening introductory pieces by the editors -- which, avoiding manifesto, nonetheless map out a great, concise history of the field and in their view necessary complexities of cultural studies. Then, picking about, I read a few selections that enacted ...
I'm a text guy, a loving diviner of the messy complexities of the formal object--whether a novel, a pop song, a photo, a film. I get kicks from hermeneutics.And I found my pleasures amplified when, in grad school, I began digging around in what goes into shaping that text (ye olde production questi...