John Fiske (media studies)

John Fiske (media studies)

John Fiske is a media scholar who has taught around the world, most notably as Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of interest include popular culture, mass culture, and television studies. He is the author of eight books, including "Power Plays, Power Works" (1993), "Understanding Popular Culture" (1989), "Reading the Popular" (1989), and the influential "Television Culture" (1987). Fiske also acts as a media critic, examining how cultural meaning is created in American society, and how debates over issues such as race are handled in different media. In May 2008, Fiske received an Honorary Degree from the University of Antwerp.

Career

Fiske was born and educated in Britain. After graduating from Cambridge University he taught throughout the world including Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. He was the general editor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Western Australia, Australia during the 1980s to early 1990s. He is the author of books on television studies on popular culture and mass media. Fiske's books analyze television shows as "texts" to examine the different layers of meaning and sociocultural content. Fiske disagrees with the theory that mass audiences consume the products that are offered to them without thought. Fiske rejects the notion of "the audience" which assumes an uncritical mass. He instead suggests "audiences" with various social backgrounds and identities enabling them to receive texts differently.

Fiske's 1987 textbook on television, "Television Culture", introduces the subject of television studies by examining the economic and cultural issues and the theory and text-based criticism. It also gives an overview of the arguments by British, American, Australian and French scholars. It was "one of the first books about television to take seriously the feminist agenda that has been so important to the recent development of the field." [ [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:tEo0x25Na9IJ:www.museum.tv/archives/etv/T/htmlT/televisionst/televisionst.htm+john+fiske+television+culture&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15 403 Forbidden ] ] Fiske is considered one of the first scholars applying semiotics to media texts following the tradition of poststructuralism.

His life

In 1994, John Fiske and his wife Lisa Freeman established their own antiques shop - "Fiske & Freeman: Fine and Early Antiques'. Fiske is also the editor-in-chief of the "New England Antiques Journal".

In 2000 he was granted Emeritus status as a Professor of Letters and Science/ Communication Arts after having taught at the University for 12 years (University of Wisconsin, 2000). He has since retired from academia, devoting himself full-time to antiques in Belmont, Vermont; Fiske and Freeman relocated to Ipswich, Massachusetts in 2008.

Bibliography

* Understanding Popular Culture (1987) ISBN 978-0415078764
* Television Culture (Studies in Communication Series) (1987) ISBN 0415039347
* Reading the Popular (Aug 1, 1989) ISBN 978-0415078757
* Power Plays, Power Works (1993) ISBN 0860916162
* Reading Television (J. Fiske & J. Hartley) Routledge, (1996) ISBN 0415042917
* Introduction to Communication Studies (Studies in Culture and Communication) (Oct 25, 1990) ISBN 0415046726
* Media Matters: Race and Gender in U.S. Politics (Mar 1996) ISBN 978-0-8166-2463-8
* Remote Control : Television, Audiences and Cultural Power "Moments of Television: Neither the Text not the Audience" E. Seiter, H. Borchers, G. Kreutzner and E-M. Warth (eds.) (1989) ISBN 978-0415065054
* Mass Media and Society "Postmodernism and Television" J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds.) (1991) ISBN 978-0340732014
* Channels of Discourse, Reassembled "British Cultural Studies and Television" R. C. Allen (ed.) (1992) ISBN 978-0807843741
*Chandler, D. 2001, Semiotics; The Basics, London: Routledge.
* Drake, G. 2003, This place gives me space: place and creativity in the creative industries, Geoforum 34 (4): 511-524.
* Director of Centre, 2000, University of Queensland, Television: Past, Present and Futures, http://cccs.uq.edu.au/events/television/program/abstracts/fiske.html, Accessed March 2008.
* Fiske, J. Hartley, J. 1978, Reading Television, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
* Fiske, J. 1987, Television Culture. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
* Fiske, J. 1989, Understanding Popular Culture, London: Routledge.
* Fiske, J. 1989, Reading the Popular. London: Unwin Hyman Ltd.
* Florida, R. 2002, The rise of the creative class and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life, New York, Basic Books.
* Freeman, L. 2007, Fiske and Freeman Fine and Early Antiques: Yours Sincerely, Essays on Antiques and Country Life, http://www.fiskeandfreeman.com/YS.aspx\, Accessed March 2008.
* Frow, J. 2005, Australian Humanities Review, 'Australian Cultural Studies: Theory, Story History', Issue 37, http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-December-2005/frow.html, Accessed March 2008.
* Muller, E. 1992, From Ideology to Knowledge and Power, http://www.let.uu.nl/~Eggo.Mueller/personal/onderzoek/interview-fiske.htm, Accessed April 2008
* Nandy, 2006, Australian Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 1-4: May 1983-May 1987: Mission Statement, http://info.ccs.curtin.edu.au/AJCSjournal-index.cfm, Accessed March 2008.
* O'Regan, M. 2000, ABC Radio National: The Media Report, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mediareport/stories/2000/221100.htm, Accessed March 2008.
* Tims, C and Wright, S. 2007, Project Creativity In So What Do You Do? A New Question for Policy in the Creative Age.http://www.demos.co.uk/publications//sowhatdoyoudoreport, Accesed February 2008.
* University of Wisconsin, August 2000, Faculty and academic staff granted emeritis/emerita status in 2000/2001, http://www.news.wisc.edu/5209, accessed March 2008

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