Communication 794CP - S-Cultural Production Research

Cultural production is the making, circulation and reception of cultural forms and practices in any communicative mode or combination (e.g. music, visual art, verbal storytelling, gaming, `zines). It may take shape in contexts ranging from the dominant commercial mainstream, to garage bands and urban knitting circles, to on-line genres. In this seminar, we will review the literature on cultural industries, fan cultures, and community cultural production across forms, in preparation for original research projects. Beyond those traditional categories, students will also take on the relationship between culture and thriving?asking not only about industry vs. resistance, creatives vs. suits, cultural mediators vs. fans, community cultural economies, or even about your own practices as cultural producers, but also about the essential place of culture and art as everyday life.

Open to Doctoral & Masters students only.