Cultural Studies and Composition

I think that the authors, Diana George and John Trimvur, did not give an explicit explanation of the cultural studies. They gave me hope about the chapter at the beginning such as what is culture studies, where does it come from, what does it want, what does it do, and why has it become? However, they did not come on with any answers to those questions.

According to the book, cultural studies is discussions of its relation to the academic disciplines and analysis of its theoretical problematics as possible 'definition strategies" The strategy is to ask what the object or topics of cultural studies are the circulation of the cultural products are from production to texts to readings to lived cultures (Johnson, 77) I wonder if it means that cultural studies and composition is everything, I mean write about everything that we see or read in which the topic is close to us. Then we critically think about it from our initial thoughts.

It seems clear enough about cultural at the end of the chapter. Cultural studies is the studies of everything that people get involved with. Language is ones of the components of cultural; hence, we use it in a class. We analyze and critical the mass communication such as newspaper, TV, advertisement, so forth and so on which tell us about our culture, then write about it.

Berline suggests that there are two commonplace practices:
1) to begin student writing with topic "close to the self" close to student's write whatever topic they like and close to them, so then they would write something crazy like Britney Spears and other things. How can we make them write something that would seem to be valuable to them? And they know that what they are writing is something that related to culture?
2) to teach close reading and interpretation of texts substituting pop culture or media for literary texts. Teachers can get their students to read and analyzed by media advertising, malls, city streets, and the rituals of everyday life as cultural texts.