Cultural science should analyze the ordinary communicative products of contemporary life
Evidence
The task now for students of communications or mass communication or contemporary culture is to turn these advances in the science of culture toward the character- istic products of contemporary life: news stories, bureaucratic language, love songs, political rhetoric, daytime serials, scientiļ¬c reports, television drama, talk shows, and the wider world of contemporary leisure, ritual, and informa- tion. ā James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays onā¦, 332
Categorization
- SEED: A ready-made research agenda: applying interpretive cultural analysis to news, serials, talk shows, and political rhetoric.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim ā James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays onā¦, 332
- XREF: connects to: Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior ā James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays onā¦, 290; Studying culture is fundamentally studying communications ā James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays onā¦, 251; Cultural studies scholarship examines culture and class through theoretical frameworks (+1 more)
Related
- Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior (similarity 0.87)
- Studying culture is fundamentally studying communications (similarity 0.87)
- Cultural Studies made audiencesā active role and cultural politics into common sense (similarity 0.81)
- Social science interprets the interpretations that culture makes of life (similarity 0.80)
- Understanding communication means grasping othersā purposes hermeneutically (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Studying culture is fundamentally studying communications
#expands(0.85) ā James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays onā¦, 251 - Cultural studies scholarship examines culture and class through theoretical frameworks
#qualifies(0.65)