Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling

It is argued that recent developments in the uses of new media have ethical and methodological implications for cultural studies, highlighting some of the discipline's persistent and unresolved tensions around popular culture, cultural agency and cultural value.

Abstract

Everyday or amateur cultural and media production has long been a site of both optimism and contestation for cultural studies, but there is now more justification than ever to focus on it. On the o...