Badania nad kulturą, komunikacją, wiedzą i mediami : wybrane problemy tożsamości dyscypliny

The aim of the article is to present selected problems of the identity of cultural studies, which are now entangled in the study of the interface between culture and technology. The area of cultural studies reflection inevitably extends to research on culture, communication, knowledge and media. While trying to study new media and their impact on contemporary culture, it is necessary to look at how they change the ways of communication, how they shape models of thinking and what knowledge they construct. All this influences the shape of culture at the stage of cyberculture. Following the historical-cultural traces, the author of the article tries to show the sense of looking at the present and the future through categories shaped in the past. Entering into a dialogue with the deliberations of Peter Burke, Rens Bod and Umberto Eco, she tries to capture and show the tensions between attempts to organize, classify, assign cognitive categories and attempts to recategorize knowledge and expand the area of research, which is necessary when, due to its dynamics, the subject of research escapes classical models of cognition. Thus, cultural studies (and cultural studies on the media) are situated as a science that necessarily constructs its identity on interdisciplinary research