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Stuart Hall's Circuit of Culture explained by Kalyani Vallath

We have already discussed Stuart Hall's concepts of Encoding and Decoding in an earlier blog post. That story does not end there. Courtesy: https://images.app.goo.gl/9G9VHXPxJQhxFG8QA A Later Model The Encoding-Decoding Model of Communication was later developed by Stuart Hall into the concept of Circuit of Culture which connects Communication and Cultural Capitalism.  This theory asserts that the the creation and propagation of Culture involves five processes: production, consumption, identity, regulation, and signification. What are these Processes? Production refers to making or inventing cultural products, reproducing and distributing them—and paying for all this labour. An example would be Television shows. Consumption refers to buying the products (subscribing and watching particular shows), using them, becoming  part of these products and the culture they represent—and paying for all this. Identity refers to all the agents involved with producing, ...