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soort van cursus voorafgaand aan BA-thesis. Thinkers and Theories
Bourdieu, Foucault, leesgids door vraagsturing.
Discussion of Pierre Bourdieu’ book Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste
Discussion 1: The starting premises informing Bourdieu’s arguments on the production and appropriation of culture
- What does Bourdieu’s critique of taste entail?
- How does Bourdieu relate taste to class?
- Following up on the previous two questions, what conclusions can we draw on how Bourdieu’s critique of taste helps shine a light on existing hierarchies of power within society?
- How can we relate Bourdieu’s arguments about taste to media production and consumption practices?
Discussion 2: Bourdieu’s take on power
- How does Bourdieu conceptualize the field of cultural production and what are the forces/elements that make up a field?
- How does Bourdieu define capital (in its various forms: cultural, economic, social, political, symbolic) and habitus?
- How does Bourdieu’s relate his concepts of field, capital and habitus to discussions of power?
- How is power constructed, according to Bourdieu and how does his take on power differ from Latour’s?
Discussion 3: Using Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and habitus in media research
- What insights can Bourdieu’s critique of taste offer into understanding media consumption in relation to discussions of power?
- How can Bourdieu’s theory of field apply to understanding media as a field of cultural production?
- How does Bourdieu’s field theory help theorize the power dynamics that make up different media professions?
- How can we understand media users/consumers through the conceptual lens of habitus?
Discussion of Michel Foucault’s Power/Knowledge. Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977
Discussion 1: Starting premises of Foucault’s work on power
- How does
Foucault understand repression and why does he argue that surveillance,
rather penalties is more effective within that exercise of power?
- How does
Foucault discuss courts of justice and prisons as instruments of power
that fail to discipline citizens and instead produce knowledge as power?
- What does
Foucault mean by referring to any mechanisms of power as ‘capillary
forms of existence’ (p. 39) and which understandings of power can be
derived from that?
- How does
Foucault conceive of the ‘human subject’ as part of a social body of
information and how is that social body of information produced?
Discussion 2: Foucault on knowledge, discourse and power
- What does
Foucault mean by knowledge as power? What are the mechanisms by which
knowledge functions as an act of disciplining and lends itself to
operations of power?
- What does Foucault mean by discourse and how are discourses of truth (e.g. around madness, sexuality, etc.) made and used as instruments of power?
- What does Foucault’s term by a discursive formation refer to?
- What does Foucault understand by the dispositifs or apparatuses of power?
Discussion 3: Using Foucault’s understandings of discourse, knowledge and power in media research
- How can we understand power in relation to media through Foucault’s understanding of discourse?
- How does
Foucault’s understanding of human subjectivity lend itself to
discussions of how identity (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, national
identity, etc.) is constituted through the media?
- Building
upon Foucault’s discussions of knowledge and power, how does media
research or scientific knowledge about the media contribute to the
formation of what Nick Couldry critiqued as a ‘mediated centre’?
MA cursus over toekomst communicatie en technologie
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context collapse, and the imagined audience. New media & society, 13(1), 114-
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