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In: | Social Media + Society, 2, 2016, 1, S. 205630511663277 |
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SAGE Publications
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 205630511663277 |
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2056-3051
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DOI: | 10.1177/2056305116632777 |
veröffentlicht in: | Social Media + Society |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> The commentary traces four distinct but overlapping cultures in US media studies: (1) speech and rhetoric, (2) a media research field centered on the mass communication trades, (3) one detached from those trades, and (4) film studies. I point to each culture’s institutional history, typical academic unit, and unique self-understanding. The main claim is that the four-part division has always had an arbitrary character, but is especially incoherent and damaging in an era of media convergence and cross-disciplinary interest in the field’s core questions. The commentary argues that the four-culture divide renders our scholarship invisible not just to outsiders from other disciplines but even to our would-be compatriots in the other three cultures. </jats:p> |