Culture: Recent Episodes

Samina Wahid

Test

A quick recap of what cultural appropriation and why it’s not okay to do it.

Stuart Hall

Part one

Two-part lecture on internet and new media and its effects.

A continuation of Williams’ discourse

Williams’ take on cultural materialism and technological determinism

The last bit of the podcast

This is in two parts mainly because the internet connection died and I got cut off abruptly.

Three main perspectives

The medium is the message, global village, technology as extensions of people, hot and cool medium.

Taking forward our discussion on representation and feminism, I talk about ‘stereotyping as a signifying practice’ in this podcast.

This podcast explains Stuart Hall’s ideas of representation of cultural and racial minorities in the media. It discusses the different theories of representation as well as stereotypes.