Encoding and decoding in the television discourse

3 Feb 1932 – 10 Feb 2014

Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist and sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)">Stuart Hall</a> on Wikipedia (Wikipedia contributors, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.es">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>)