Commentary
Introduction
Author:
John Hartley
Curtin University, Australia, and Cardiff University Wales
Abstract
This issue of Cultural Science Journal is devoted to work by eight emergent scholars in cultural sciences. The topics are predictably diverse but unpredictably connected: they range across historical and contemporary activities in creative cities; digital storytelling; war propaganda; love in advertising; online inter-language relations; transmedia entertainment; and online spoof videos. The themes running through the papers include methodological themes about the need to pay attention to practices as well as concepts; conceptual themes about the shifting relations of terms like public and private, producer and consumer, professional and user; and technological themes related to the rapid evolution of hardware, software and the socio-cultural networks that sustain them. Overall, common „codes‟ underlying very different textual performances are readily discernible across the eight papers.
Published on
03 Jul 2012.
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