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Media,
Communication, and Information Theory since 1950s
(McLuhan,
Goody, Innis, Havelok) |
Structuralism
and Linguistics since 1960
(de
Saussure, Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, Chomsky) |
European-French
neo-Marxism and Critical Theory
(Benjamin,
Debord, Adorno, Althusser) |
European
Philosophy, "grand tradition" including hermeneutics
(Hegel,
Marx, Husserl, Gadamer, Heidegger) |
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Sociology
of media
(Hall,
Fiske) |
Semiology/
Semiotics
[signs
andl meaning; intertextuality, interpretation]
(de Saussure, Peirce, Lotman, Barthes, Eco) |
Received
Academic and Professional Disciplinary boundary assumptions
(and differences between US and French/ European disciplines)
(US
acdemic disciplinary tribes; "human sciences" vs.
science and technology) |
Modern
French philosophical and intellectual traditions
(Sartre,
Bergson, Bachelard, Derrida) |
US-UK
Cultural Studies: cultural analyses of gender, race, class,
ethnicity, identities
(Hall,
Jameson and followers) |
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Reception
Theory: history of cultural reception, interpretive communities
(Jauss,
Iser, Fish, Roger Chartier, etc.) |
Post-Structuralism,
Discourse Theory, Deconstruction
(Derrida, Foucault, Lacan) |
Recent
Marxian theory, 1980s-present
(Jameson,
Lyotard, Baudrillard, Virilio, French po-mo, Zizek) |
Anglo-American
Philosophy of Language
(Wittgenstein, Austin, Searle, Rorty) |
Feminist and gender studies |
Materialist
Social History
(Braudel, Foucault) |
Media Studies
New Media Studies (post-digital) |
Post-Structuralist
Sociology
Bourdieu |
American
Pragmatism and Critique of Theory
Ricard Rorty,
Stanley Fish |
Popular Culture Studies |
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Political-Economy
and quantitative methodology for the study of media and communications |
Visual Culture Studies |
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Mediology and recent interdicplinary approaches
Mediology
as a metatheory and point of view for analyzing media and
institutions:
A method for recombinant theory and practice in media and
communication research |
| Martin
Irvine, 2005-2009 |