Interdisciplinarity in mediatized society: an imperative-problem dichotomy in cultural studies

Abstract

Through the Cultural Studies perspective, this article analyzes why interdisciplinarity is needed in contemporary society as an imperative and, at the same time, as a challenge. The interdisciplinary approach is a requirement due to the aggravated effects that digital media has led in Latin American nations’ identity construction processes and, at the same time, it is a problem as the contemporary theoretical frustrations have not realized how to organize and explain the new diversity. This dichotomy it is not a question of method or didactic, though it manifests with greater emphasis at this level, but fundamentally it is a structural issue, inherited by the traditional model of science that accustomed researchers to build their study objects alone. In this context, the analysis is done within literature and in the path to the qualitative research approach.