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Record Nr.

UNISA996202208803316

Autore

Morley David <1949, >

Titolo

Spaces of identity : global media, electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries / / David Morley and Kevin Robins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-86530-9

1-134-86531-7

1-280-33658-7

0-203-42297-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Altri autori (Persone)

RobinsKevin

Disciplina

303.48/33

600

Soggetti

Intercultural communication

Telecommunication - Social aspects

Group identity

Computers and civilization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; GLOBALISATION AS IDENTITY CRISIS: THE NEW GLOBAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE; REIMAGINED COMMUNITIES? NEW MEDIA, NEW POSSIBILITIES; CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF EUROPE; EUROCULTURE: COMMUNICATION, SPACE AND TIME; NO PLACE LIKE HEIMAT: IMAGES OF HOME(LAND); TRADITION AND TRANSLATION: NATIONAL CULTURE IN ITS GLOBAL CONTEXT; UNDER WESTERN EYES: MEDIA, EMPIRE AND OTHERNESS; TECHNO-ORIENTALISM: JAPAN PANIC; THE POLITICS OF SILENCE: THE MEANING OF COMMUNITY AND THE USES OF MEDIA

THE END OF WHAT? POSTMODERNISM, HISTORY AND THE WESTBibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks



at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient.