John Fiske (September 12, 1939 – July 12, 2021)[1] was a media scholar and cultural theorist who taught around the world.
He received a BA (Honors) and MA in English Literature from Cambridge University, where he studied under the renowned leftist literary and cultural critic and activist Raymond Williams, who influenced Fiske's intellectual thinking throughout his life.
Positions he held included: While living in Perth, Australia, during the 1980s and early 1990s, he was the general editor of the academic journal Cultural Studies while he taught at Western Australian Institute of Technology (known as Curtin University as of 1986).
Fiske's books analyze television shows as semiotic "texts" in order to examine the different layers of meaning and sociocultural content.
[7] Rather than constituting a particular class or permanently-defined socio-political group, power blocs are unsystematic series of both strategic and tactical political alliances.
They therefore arise and separate on an ad hoc basis (i.e., depending on the necessities of the moment), and their alliance is specific to matters of social, cultural, historic, and/or imminent relevance.