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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449773303321

Titolo

Culture in the communication age / / edited by James Lull

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

0-203-13618-7

0-203-25061-3

1-134-59861-0

1-280-40141-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Comedia

Altri autori (Persone)

LullJames

Disciplina

306

306.46

Soggetti

Communication

Communication and culture

Culture

Social aspects

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Why the Communication Age? JAMES LULL; The foundations of culture; Culture of the mind: on the origins of meaning and emotion EDWARD C. STEWART; Rethinking the foundations of culture EDUARDO NEIVA; Thinking about culture in a global ecumene ULF HANNERZ; Making sense of culture; From ways of life to lifestyle: rethinking culture as ideology and sensibility DAVID C. CHANEY; The question of cultural gender MIRJA LIIKKANEN; Cultural fronts: towards a dialogical understanding of contemporary cultures JORGE A. GONZLEZ

Superculture for the Communication Age JAMES LULLContemporary cultural forms; Cultural theory in popular culture and media spectacles MICHAEL REAL; Visual culture PAUL MESSARIS; Star culture STEPHEN



HINERMAN; Computers, the Internet, and virtual cultures STEVE JONES AND STEPHANIE KUCKER; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today?Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means in the modern era. They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age', and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global communication, mass media, information technology, and popular culture. Individual chapters consider:* Cultures of the mind  *  Rethi