Stuart Hall
Hall, Stuart (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014)[edit]
Cultural theorist and sociologist, famous for his Encoding/Decoding theory, which he presented in a paper entitled, "Training in the Critical Readings of Television Language" (1973). Born and educated in Jamaica, Hall came to Britain in 1951 on a Rhodes scholarship and attended Merton College at the University of Oxford. A major influence on Cultural Studies, he co-founded the ‘Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ at Birmingham University in 1964, where he became director in 1968 and was Professor of Sociology at the Open University from 1979, retiring in 1997 .
