Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart
This week the Media Book Club brings you a classic book from one of the founders of Media and Cultural Studies, Richard Hoggart. Uses of Literacy was published in 1957 but the ideas posed in this influential work are still relevant today. Hoggart asks at what price does a society become affluent? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Exploring themes of rapid social transition and class inequality, Hoggart looks at the role the media has to play in the abuse of literacy and the working classes.
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