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Cultural studies and critical literacies 6 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the ...
Sleeping with the enemy: Audience studies and critical literacy 6 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Audience studies is not the vibrant field it was in its 1980s and early 1990s heyday. Cultural studies today has a more balanced interest in production, audiences and texts. A renewed focus in audienc...
Critical literacy lessons for the intellectual properties of learning from Bede and Alcuin of York 6 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
The concept of intellectual property has much to contribute to cultural literacy. Intellectual property rights are crucial to issues of access to and economics of research and scholarship, and how suc...
Practise what you preach: Engaging in humanities research through critical praxis 6 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
This article explores how a cultural studies perspective can be used to critically analyse practices of conducting research within the (digital) humanities. It uses, among others, the example of the a...
'What is the meaning of a safety-pin?' Critical literacies and the ethnographic turn in contemporary art 6 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
In this contribution we address the concept of critical literacies by analyzing how symbolic representations within subcultures can be understood as an engagement with specific literacy practices. For...
Doing cultural studies: What is literacy in the age of the post? 6 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Literacy in the context of cultural studies (CS) in Africa concerns less the ability to read and write than the quotidian practice of doing. This intervention argues that CS as taught and as its texts...
Museums and cultural memory in an age of networks 18 Jun 2013 | 06:58 pm
Techno-social developments over the last two decades have given rise to a multitude of translocal networks, making possible an unprecedented ‘globalization’ of cultural memory practices across geopoli...
Scaling digital walls: Everyday practices of consent and adaptation to digital architectural control 18 Jun 2013 | 06:58 pm
Users of mobile phones, computers and other digital media devices are increasingly confronted with what Lessig calls ‘architectural control’. This article presents results from a study which reveals t...
The affirmative character of cultural studies 18 Jun 2013 | 06:58 pm
Drawing on the four authors’ experiences as members of a collective made up of faculty and staff housed across several academic and non-academic educational institutions in the Seattle metropolitan re...
The 'when' of memory: Contemporary memorials to distant and violent pasts 18 Jun 2013 | 06:58 pm
In 2006, the Tower of London erected a new memorial to commemorate the victims of the Tower. Previously marketed as a fun-packed revel in the macabre, the memorial sculpture has altered the mood of re...
