David Morley

• Goldsmiths University of London

This conversation considers some of the disciplinary divides and anxieties surrounding contemporary research on media and mobility through a discussion of linkages between these two research fields and the role of non-media centric focuses on media across the disciplines. The conversation was sparked by the three-day workshop, Anthropologies of Med...

div class="page" title="Page 1"> Num contexto em que o estudo da comunicação tende a se concentrar apenas na mobilidade da informação, em detrimento da mobilidade de pessoas e de mercadorias, este artigo explora o potencial de uma maior integração entre os campos da comunicação e dos estudos de transporte. Contra a presunção de que a emergência da...

What are the premises of the major questions in media theory? Arguing for better questions this contribution notes the persistence of eurocentricism, ­mediacentricism and technological determinism and the dominance of the ­experience of what Jared Diamond calls the WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democracies) nations in framing the term...

As the title of this final chapter suggests, we wish to reverse the position that runs through much of the existing literature, of whether and how the Balkans have been seeking a home in Europe. Guided by Julia Kristeva’s important idea1 that it is only at the point at which we can imagine ourselves as strangers that we can start dealing with diffe...

In this interview, David Morley addresses the contemporary European refugee ‘crisis’, the representation of the ‘migrant’ and the increasing securitisation of Europe’s borders in terms of a crisis in European political identity. Looking back on several of his own publications, as well as the work of those who have influenced him and his time as a s...

This prefatory note contextualizes the essays that follow by offering a brief history of the conflicted history of efforts to find a place for cultural studies inside the discipline of communication studies.

On the face of it, the notion of non-media-centric media studies appears to be a contradiction in terms. Surely those who are working in media studies will put media at the centre of their investigations and explanations of social life? In the following conversation, three advocates of a non-media-centric approach discuss their ways into the field...

This article addresses the ways in which cultural studies has transformed the premises of the study of communication over the last 30 years. It focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of cultural studies and offers a critique of contemporary attempts to replace the kind of grounded theory produce by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCC...

The article surveys perspectives on technological change and globalisation which might be seen as ‘media-centric’ in respect of their assumptions about the extent to which media technologies themselves are necessarily the driving force of cultural and political change. It argues for the need to situate contemporary forms of technological ‘newness’...

In this article, the author offers a contextualist approach to contemporary debates about new (and old) media in different historical times and geographical places. This approach, rather than starting with the internal essence of a technology and then attempting to deduce its effects from its technical specifications, begins with an analysis of the...

Este artigo se inicia com os recentes debates sobre a representação da vida da classe trabalhadora, especialmente a vida dos pobres displicentes, em programas de televisão- realidade no Reino Unido. Estas questões são contextualizadas em amplos e diversificados debates históricos sobre: a) a categoria de classe como um modo de determinação social (...

The dialogue begins with a discussion of the development of processes of globalisation in recent years, offering a critique of some of the more hyperbolic claims about the death of geography. The discussion then moves to the question of the new conditions for the production of localities, and the role of new technologies in these developments. Furt...

In a context where the study of communications tends to focus only on the mobility of information, to the neglect of that of people and commodities, this article explores the potential for a closer integration between the fields of communications and transport studies. Against the presumption that the emergence of virtuality means that material geo...

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This article takes, as its point of departure, recent debates about the representation of working-class life, especially the lives of the 'feckless poor', on reality television in the UK. These issues are contextualized by reference to a set of wider-ranging historical debates about: a) the category of class as a mode of social determination (and a...

This is a republished edition, with extended scholarly notes, of the 1982 1st edition of this text on community publishing and working class writing. It includes an interview with two of the original editors and contributions from other Federation of Worker Writers and community Publishers commentators on the movement over the subsequent 25 years s...

Como o seu título insinua, este artigo explora diversas perguntas não respondidas, assim como questões em aberto, ligadas à pesquisa contemporânea de audiência. Estas incluem: modelos da “audiência ativa”; questões de poder cultural; mídia global e audiência transnacional; metodologia em pesquisa de audiência; problemas de essencialismo na conceitu...

This paper offers a retrospective analysis of the significance of the "Nationwide Audience" study, first published in 1980, which while now out of print, continues to be widely cited as a turning point in recent media audience research. The argument of the paper is that the "Nationwide" study has been widely misinterpreted, as legitimating a populi...

This article focuses on how we can understand the contradictory dynamicsthrough which communications technologies have been domesticated at the same time that domesticity itself has been dislocated. The article addresses questions of historical periodization and the need for a more developed historical perspective on the futurological debates about...

This article is concerned with transformations in ideas of home, place, belonging and identity in the context of the transnational patterns of communication and mobility which increasingly characterize our contemporary, destabilized (or, according to some, deterritorialized) world. The article examines the cultural significance of the transgression...

In the UK we have recently witnessed a series of attacks on the overall project of cultural studies, both in the popular press and, within the academy, by scholars associated with the more established disciplines of sociology and anthropology. The critiques variously argue that cultural studies has led us into a political ‘dead end’ (in particular,...

This paper addresses the question of the future of Europe under the conditions of the postmodern communications geography in which we now live. The paper explores the cultural dimensions of the issues (concerning the regressive nature of the images of a white, Christian Europe) which lurk beneath the economic ``bottom line'' of the European Union's...

Análisis de la naturaleza compleja y contradictoria de las identidades culturales en el contexto internacional formado tras la caída del socialismo real en Europa del Este (1989) y en los procesos de globalización finiseculares. A un nivel teórico, la primera preocupación de los autores alude a la reconfiguración de las identidades culturales en el...

This article takes as its starting point the visit of the Turkish German rap group, Cartel, to Istanbul in the Summer of 1995. It considers the cultural significance of this new musical form in the context of second generation migrant experience in Germany. Then it proceeds to explore the implications for Turkey of the return home of migrant cultur...

From the Publisher: We are living through a time when old identities--nation, culture and ethnicity--are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography in the communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current pr...

This paper offers an overview of recent developments within the field of media audience research. In particular, the paper addresses the criticisms of the ‘new’ or ‘revisionist’ audience research made from both liberal and marxist perspectives. The paper argues that while some versions of cultural studies media work may have developed a romanticise...

Resumo A partir da identificação de algumas críticas aos estudos culturais que circulam no nosso meio acadêmico, em especial na comunicação, apresento, de forma bastante sintética, esse projeto intelectual, não como forma de responder diretamente a tais posicionamentos, mas com a intenção de colocar na agenda de debates da área parte de seus fundam...

Traducción de: Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies

Como o seu título insinua, este artigo explora diversas perguntas não respondidas, assim como questões em aberto, ligadas à pesquisa contemporânea de audiência. Estas incluem: modelos da “audiência ativa”; questões de poder cultural; mídia global e audiência transnacional; metodologia em pesquisa de audiência; problemas de essencialismo na conceitu...

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