Autore	Lull James
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina	302.2
Soggetto topico	Communication and culture Communication, International Globalization Journalism & Communications Communication & Mass Media
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-34202-9 9786612342028 0-470-69654-0 0-470-69579-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Culture-on-Demand: Communication in a Crisis World; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 All Eyes on the Global Stage; Media Globalization; Modern Media Development; The Global Divides; China and the Middle East: Responses to Modernity and Globalization; The Communications Revolution; 2 Human Expression; The Cultural Politics of Expression; The Need for Expression; Symbolic Creativity and the Expressive Self; Emotional Communication; The fear factor and the pleasure principle; The Active Pleasures of Expression and Communication; Mobile expression Cultural Open SourcingSymbolic Power to the People; 3 Programming Our Personal Supercultures; Cultural Experience; Culture, culture, Superculture; The "supers"; Culture in common; Cultural Technology in the Communication Age; Cultural Programming; The Cultural Self and Self Culture; Encountering Culture; The Cultural Spheres; Universal values and concepts; Transnational cultural media; Civilizations; Nations; Regions and everyday life; The Cultural Mix in Action; Superculture Revisited; 4 The Push and Pull of Culture; The Push of Culture; Diaspora; Nation as contested push The Pull of CultureIndividualism; "A life of one's own"; New Cultural Horizons; 5 Globalized Islam; The Islamic Cultural Body; The visible visual body; Gender equality, political democracy, and economic prosperity; Islam in the West; The Opinion, and the Other Opinion; The global TV war; The New Imagined World of Islam; Instrumental modernity; The communications problem; 6 Cultural Transparency; Reflexive Cultural Globalization; The globalization of good and bad ideas; Loving to hate America; Open Society: The Guiding Principle for Cultural Development; The Power of Transparency Transparency or surveillance?7 The Open Spaces of Global Communication; Stage 1: Cultural Technology, Industry, Abundance; Stage 2: Global Visibility and Transparency; Stage 3: Platforms for Participation; Stage 4: Global Consciousness and Public Opinion; Stage 5: Global Wisdom; Stage 6: Institutional Channels; Stage 7: Utopian Potential; 8 Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism; The Passion of the Religious Culture; Fundamentalist America; The active passivity of Islam; Other Fundamentalisms; Nationalism; Market fundamentalism; The Democratic Secular Imperative; One Moral Universe? A "modest cosmopolitan" alternative9 Communicating the Future; The Paradox of Tolerance; The Great Chain of Communication; References; Index
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