Information and entertainment In the Schiller-McChesney tradition, as in liberal-pluralist communication studies, the primary concern is with information media. The cultural industries 9 Miège (1989), Garnham (1990) and Ryan (1992) were for many years unusual in pay- ing serious attention to this issue. In the late 1990s, cultural studies writers, such as McRobbie (1998) and Ross (1998), began to address these questions. In the 2000s, there was a ‘turn to cultural work’ in the social sciences and humanities (see Banks, 2007; and Chapter 7, below). 02-Hesmondhalgh-4453-Ch-01.indd 46 25/10/2012 5:50:43 PM
47 Theories of Culture, Theories of Cultural Production approach has been more successful in the difficult task of addressing both information and entertainment.
