History of Origins: Media and Science

Our two sources were almost opposite. While our reader packet only covered American Cultural Studies and Media studies in depth the book covered American, Canadian, French, and technology C.S. a little, and south Asian C.S. and Orientalism a ton. Our packet talked about numerous people of influence on American C.S. including, but not limited to, Fredierick Jackson Turner, Gene Wise, Henry Nash Smith, Leo Marx, Hannah Arendt, Marshal McLuhan, and Roland Barthes. The book didn’t focus as much on individuals, but overcastting movements for example Post modernist in America, Canada’s identity struggle (between English, French, and native languages), Australia’s effort to be more British, the French’s identity struggle, and the South Asian CSDS. In America several events, the GI bill and American’s growth in power, jump started the American Cultural Studies. Once the US became the Worlds sole super power American’s view of themselves changed again.

1) Keywords: Education:
Higher education what some claim jump started cultural studies in Britain. It also helped further the movement in America. “Few would deny that education is both an individual and a social good.” By reaching higher academically new thoughts and disciplines are created, a big reason American cultural studies got under way. Also, education helps define cultures for the individual and the community. “It can lead us forth into the relatively homogeneous cultural values and expectations of a traditional community, or into the complexities of hybrid identities and conflicted values of a culturally diverse society.”

2) Wikipedia: Hegemony: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony
Hegemony is a word used to describe the dominance of one social group over another. The ruling class obtains “some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force. It is used broadly to mean any kind of dominance, and narrowly to refer to specifically cultural and non-military dominance, as opposed to the related notions of empire and suzerainty.” Antonio Gramsci created the more widely known accounts of Hegemony. “According to Gramsci, hegemony consists of socio-political power that flows from enabling the "spontaneous consent" of the populace through intellectual and moral leadership or authority as employed by the subalterns of the State.”

3) Leo Marx: http://web.mit.edu/sts/faculty/info/Marx_Leo-css.html
Leo Marx was/is not a decendant of the famous Carl Marx but he too had an impact on Cultural Studies. “His work examines the relationship between technology and culture in 19th and 20th century America.”

--Clayton