Sunday, February 1, 2009

My thoughts of the class

As I mentioned at the first class, my favorite professor at my college is doing communication research in the field of critical cultural theories. So I’ve got some basic ideas of this field. When I first opened the textbook, I saw many familiar names such as Gramsci, Habermas, Baudrillard, and etc, which made me feel excited.

I think so far I prefer qualitative studies to quantitative ones. That’s why I chose qualitative method for my convention paper although I truly know it will be very hard for me. And my concern is I am not very clear about how to combine theory and method in the qualitative studies. For example, I like the idea of daily hegemony which we discussed in the last class. The idea moved our focus from those big pictures to our daily lives where hegemony also produces inequality. Then I try to look at every incident in daily life from the perspective of hegemony. However, I doubt whether my way of thinking is correct although I know there isn’t a rule of thinking in qualitative studies. So I hope we could discuss more about how to apply those classic theories and how to combine it with methods in this class in the field of mass media.

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