Cultural Studies

This week’s course reading was “Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony
Walkman”. The reading discusses why and how cultural practices have come to play a major role in our lives. It also introduces concepts involved in performing cultural studies. The reading use’s the example of a Sony Walkman. The walkman is a cultural object and is analyzed through a cultural circuit. Mentioned throughout the reading are five major cultural processes that together constitute a cultural circuit that can be used to study any cultural text or artefact. These five major cultural processes are; representation, identity, production, consumption and regulation. The point of this research is to discover how cultural studies can be used to make sense of everyday life.


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