Contributions to Communication from the area of cultural studies. Interview with Ana Carolina D. Escosteguy

Abstract

Cultural studies as a discipline originated in mid-twentieth century England with the research writings of Richard Hoggart, Edward P. Thompson and Raymond Williams and began to qualify as legitimate, if very marginal, in the academic world with the creation of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in Birmingham University. Cultural studies adopted a critical stance towards the hitherto prevailing cultural approaches and placed the individual and his significant practices at the center of the question. Fifty years after this academic institutionalization, Brazilian Researcher Ana Carolina Escosteguy reflected, during an interview with Dixit, on the main theoretic and methodological contributions of cultural studies to Communication, the change of direction they brought about in cultural approach, the resistance they faced in Latin America at first and their relevancy as analytical tools for some contemporary media phenomena.