Mimi White & James Schwoch 
Questions of Method in Cultural Studies [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors..
Acknowledgments..
1. Introduction: The Questions of Method in Cultural Studies.
(James Schwoch and Mimi White).
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Part I: Space/Time/Objects.
Introduction..
2. From the Ordinary to the Concrete: Cultural Studies and the
Politics of Scale. (Anna Mc Carthy)3. Raymond Williams’
Culture and Society as Research Method. (John Durham Peters).
4. ‘Read thy self.’ Text, Audience, and Method in
Cultural Studies. (John Hartley).
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Part II: Production and Reception: The Politics of
Knowledge.
Introduction..
5. Cultural Studies of Media Production: Critical Industrial
Practice. (John Caldwell).
6. Feminism and the Politics of Method. (Joke Hermes).
7. Taking Audience Research into the Age of New Media: Old
Problems and New Challenges. (Andrea Press and Sonia
Livingstone).
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Part III: Cultural Studies and Selected Disciplines:
Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music
Studies.
Introduction.
8. Mixed and Rigorous Cultural Studies Methodology—an Oxymoron?
(Micaela di Leonardo).
9. Is Globalization Undermining the Sacred Principles of
Modernity? (Pertti Alasuutari).
10. Engagement through Alienation: Parallels of Paradox in World
Music and Tourism in Sarawak, Malaysia. (Gini Gorlinski)11. For the
Record: Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies and the Search for
Method in Popular Music Studies. (Tim Anderson).
Index.

Mimi White is Professor of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern
University. She is author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic
Discourse in American Television (1992) and co-author of
Media Knowledge (with James Schwoch and Susan Reilly,
1992).
James Schwoch holds a permanent faculty appointment at
Northwestern University, where he conducts research on media
history, diplomacy and international relations, science and
technology studies, and research methodologies. He is the author of
The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities,
1900-1939 (1990).