ini memang buku pegangan mahasiswa, textbook.
suatu kompilasi dari berbagai segi dari yg namanya praktik representasi.
ringkas dan mencakupi hampir segala yg disebut praktik representasi sehingga pasti butuhtindakan lebih lanjut utk terapannya dalam penelitian.
pencitraan mengenai pihak lain yang jauh, berbeda, di luar itu merupakan praktik kekuasaan. suatu tajuk yang disukai pada kajian budaya akhir-akhir ini.
tentunya juga menarik bagi sejarawan, utk menganalisis bagaimana praktik representasi itu berlangsung dalam penulisan sejarah: suatu peristiwa yang pernah berlangsung jauh di waktu lampau.

The commentary of this piece has become so uninteresting in the present social science context. But that’s more a reflection of how commonplace the innovation and ideas that Stuart Hall introduces in this work have become than of the quality of the work itself

Interesting ideas on representation through mass communication, but reading this is 2013 makes me see the need for a major update.

This is a great, lucid introduction to the semiotic interpretation of culture. I always liked the idea of studying behavior, language, and objects as reflections of our collective values, but the theorists that I was trying to read (Foucault, Saussure, most of their followers) were too damn hard to understand. This might have had something to do w/ the fact that they had to be translated from other languages. Regardless, Hall mixes history, theory, and specific examples of applied semiotics in a way that makes it easy to understand and easy to see the worth of looking at the world in this way.

The award for the most boring read ever.

Read extract for uni work was good for topic as we're currently studying theory and practice