CULTURE IN THE COMMUNICATION AGE
What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture tod...
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CULTURE IN THE COMMUNICATION AGE
What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today? How have cultural identities changed in globalization? 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 oflife in the 'Communication Age', and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global connectivity, mass media, information technology, and popular culture. Individual chapters consider: • • • • • • • • • • •
Culture of the Mind Rethinking the Foundations of Culture Culture in the Global Ecumene From 'Ways of Life' to 'Lifestyle' Cultural Gender Cultural Fronts Superculture Popular Culture and Media Spectacles Visual Culture Star Culture Computers, the Internet, and Virtual Cultures.
Contributors: David C. Chaney, Jorge A. Gonzalez, Ulf Hannerz, Stephen Hinerman, Steve Jones, Stephanie Kucker, Mirja Liikkanen, James Lull, Paul Messaris, Eduardo N eiva, Michael Real, Edward C. Stewart.
James Lull is Professor of Communication Studies at San Jose State University, California. He is author or editor of ten books, including Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach (Polity 2000), Media Scandals (Polity 1997), Popular Music and Communication (Sage 1992), China Turned On (Routledge 1991) and World Families Watch Television (Sage 1988).
COMEDIA Series editor: David Morley Other Comedia titles from Routledge: ADVERTISING INTERNATIONAL The Privatisation of Public Space
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE IN DIGITAL CULTURE
Armand Mattelart translated by Michael Chanan
Edited by Martin Lister
BLACK BRITISH CULTURE AND SOCIETY
THE PLACE OF MEDIA POWER
A Text Reader
Nick Couldry
Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age
Edited by Kwesi Owusu
SPECTACULAR BODIES THE CONSUMERIST MANIFESTO Advertising in Postmodern Times
Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema Yvonne 'E1Sker
Martin Davidson
STUART HALL CULTURAL SNIPING
Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
The Art of Transgression
Edited by Kuan-Hsing Chen and David Morley
Jo Spence
TEACHING THE MEDIA CULTURES OF CONSUMPTION Masculinities and Social Space in Late Twentieth-century Britain Frank Mort
Len Masterman
TELEVISION AND COMMON KNOWLEDGE Edited by Joste;n Gnpsn,d
CUT N' MIX Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music Dick Hebd(ge
TELEVISION, AUDIENCES AND CULTURAL STUDIES David Morley
THE DYNASTY YEARS Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies Jostein GnjJSrud
TELEVISION, ETHNICITY AND CULTURAL CHANGE Marie Gillespie
FAMILY TELEVISION Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure
TELEVISION MYTHOLOGIES
David Morley
Len Masterman
GENRE AND HOLLYWOOD
TIMES OF THE TECHNOCULTURE
Steve Neale
From the Information Society to the Virtual Life
HIDING IN THE LIGHT
Kevin Robins and Frank Webster
On Images and Things Dick Hebd(ge
TO BE CONTINUED. Soap Opera Around the World
HOME TERRITORIES
Edited by Robert C. Allen
Media, Mobility and Identity David Morley
TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS
INSIDE FAMILY VIEWING
Culture, People, Places UifHannerz
James Lull
VIDEO PLAYTIME MIGRANCY, CULTURE, IDENTITY
The Gendering of a Leisure Technology
lain Chambers
Ann Gray
CULTURE IN THE COMMUNICATION AGE
Edited by James Lull
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