Abstract:
Trained in critical media and cultural studies, and having taught undergraduate courses in media and communication in the tertiary sector in Australia for over a decade, I have always been interested in identifying simple, effective ways of teaching analytical methods and concepts. In this process, I have found cultural theorist Richard Johnson¿s (1986) notion of the ¿circuit of culture¿ useful. His circuit features four dimensions ¿ production, texts, readings, and lived cultures ¿ all of which are articulated in relation to one another, and are subject to conditions of social relations.
