UID:
almahu_9949385988502882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 144 pages)
ISBN:
9780429575877
,
0429575874
,
9780429200236
,
0429200234
,
9780429573767
,
0429573766
,
9780429577987
,
0429577982
Series Statement:
Routledge research in media literacy and education
Content:
Revisiting Richard Hoggart's classic work The Uses of Literacy (1957), this book applies Hoggart's framework to media literacy today, examining media literacy's various uses, the tensions between them and what this means for people, communities and the contemporary configurations of social class. In The Uses of Literacy (1957), Richard Hoggart wrote about how his working class community, in the North of England, were at once using the new mass literacy' for self-improvement, education, social mobility and civic engagement and, at the same time, the powerful were seizing the opportunity also to use this expansion in literacy, through the new popular culture, for commercial and political ends. Working in the intersection between education, cultural studies and literacies, the authors write about media literacy as a contested, under-theorised field through Hoggart's line of sight' to provide a perspective on media literacy and working class culture today. This reimagining of a classic work, piercingly relevant to studies of class in Britain in 2019, will be of key interest to scholars in Media Studies, as well as interested readers in Communication Studies, Literacy Studies, Cultural Studies, Politics and Sociology.
Note:
Who are the 'working classes'? -- Landscape with figures : a setting -- 'Them' and 'us' -- The real world of people -- The full rich life -- Unbending the springs of action -- Invitations to a candy-floss world! the newer mass art -- The newer mass art : sex in shiny packets -- Unbent springs : a note on a scepticism without tension -- Unbent springs : a note on the uprooted and the anxious fear and loathing in an age of anxiety -- Conclusion : the uses of media literacy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367190737
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367190736
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429200236.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429200236
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