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Stuart Hall was a prominent cultural theorist and sociologist born in Jamaica who moved to the UK and helped found the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. He published influential works on cultural identity and representation. Hall developed reception theory and the encoding/decoding model of communication, arguing that audiences do not passively accept media messages but can negotiate or oppose the dominant meaning through their own interpretation. His work examined how power relations are constructed and challenged through cultural production and consumption.
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- 1. Stuart Hall
- 2. Background A cultural theorist and sociologist Born February 3rd 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica Moved to the UK in 1951 where he became one of the founding figures of The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies He was also President of the British Sociological Association 1995-1997 Hall published many influential books; The Hard Road to Renewal (1988) Formations of Modernity (1992) Questions of Cultural Identity (1996) Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (1997) In 1997, he retired from the Open University and in 2008, he received the European Cultural Foundation’s Prince Margaret Award.
- 3. Ideas Hall’s view represents people as the producers and the consumers of culture at the same time. He once said that culture is not something to simply study or to appreciate but a ‘critical site of social action and intervention, where power relations are both established and potentially unsettled.’ Hall became a very important figure in the development of the Reception Theory; generally known as the audience reception in the analysis of communication models. Particularly, he developed the encoding and decoding model which focuses on the opposition and negotiation on the part of the audience. This means that an audience does not passively accept a text. He also stated that moral panics are often manipulated in order to create public support for the need to ‘police the crisis’ and therefore, the media play a crucial role in the ‘social production of the news’.
- 4. Dominant Hegemonic Position Is where the audience interprets the message as it was supposed to be interpreted. By doing this, they are operating in the dominant code.
- 5. Negotiated Position Occurs when not all audiences understand the dominant position or experience dissonance with those views
- 6. Globally Contrary Position When media consumers understand the contextual and literary inflections of a text yet decode the message by a completely oppositional means, this is the globally contrary position. The de-totalisation of that text enables them to rework it to their preferred meaning. This requires operating with an oppositional code which can understand dominant hegemonic positions while finding frameworks to refute them. Hall feels that this position is necessary to begin a struggle in discourse, or the "politics of signification”. Wikipedia.com