The Uses of Media Literacy

ISBN-13: 9780367190736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 154 str.

Julian McDougall; Pete Bennett; John Potter

Opis

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.

 

Spis treści

1. Who are ‘the Working Classes’? 2. Landscape with figures – a setting 3. ‘Them’ and ‘Us' 4. The ‘real’ world of people 5. The full rich life 6. Unbending the springs of action 7. Invitations to a candy-floss world: the newer mass art 8. The newer mass art: sex in shiny packets 9. Unbent springs: a note on a scepticism without tension 10. Unbent springs: a note on the uprooted and the anxious 11 Conclusion 12 Afterword by Kate Pahl