Week 1 – Barker Chapter 2-3

While I understand the need to be introduced to the discipline of cultural studies, I found Barker’s introduction to be rather tedious. The first chapter involved largely technical definitions, which where explained articulately but nevertheless remain somewhat abstract simply because I do not yet know enough about cultural studies to place such concepts into some sort of useful framework. Similarly, the second chapter, while again relevant, dealt largely with abstractions and thus was somewhat difficult to read. A discussion on “problems” in cultural studies seems more appropriate after one has already become somewhat familiar with the field.