Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies

by Tim O'Sullivan

Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies is a book to help you 'come to terms' with terms. Communication and Cultural Studies says new things in new ways, resulting not only in new words, concepts and theories, but also in the reworking of concepts and terms from a wide range of established disciplines. Key Concepts provides a practical and accessible guide to this exciting field. This second edition firms a multi-disciplinary glossary of the concepts you are most likely to encounter in the study of communication and culture - from 'audience' to 'stardom', from 'ethnography' to 'orientalism'. The new edition over sixty brand new additions to the original text; many entries revised and rewritten; and coverage of recent developments in communications and cultural studies.

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published December 20, 1993

About the author

Tim O'Sullivan came from incredibly humble beginnings. Born to Irish immigrants, he and his siblings lived a hand-to-mouth existence when their father abandoned them and their mother.

Coming from an impoverished background and with little in the way of a career ahead of him, Tim worked his way through many different jobs before eventually taking up an apprenticeship as a refrigeration engineer. Eventually, Tim set up his own company.

Tim managed to overcome his dirt-poor beginnings to establish a successful business, suffering heartbreaking loss along the way and prejudice as the child of immigrants.

Having come from a childhood that offered few prospects, he would go on to build a successful refrigeration and air-conditioning business and later a property company in Leicester.