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Culture in the Communication Age (Comedia)

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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 * Rethinking culture in a global context * Re-thinking Culture, from 'ways of life' to 'lifestyle' * Gender and Culture * Popular Culture and Media Spectacles * Visual Culture * Star Culture * Computers, the Internet and Virtual Cultures * Superculture in the Communication Age

Author(s): James Lull
Edition: 1
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 240

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Introduction: Why the Communication Age? JAMES LULL......Page 12
The foundations of culture......Page 18
Culture of the mind: on the origins of meaning and emotion EDWARD C. STEWART......Page 20
Rethinking the foundations of culture EDUARDO NEIVA......Page 42
Thinking about culture in a global ecumene ULF HANNERZ......Page 65
Making sense of culture......Page 84
From ways of life to lifestyle: rethinking culture as ideology and sensibility DAVID C. CHANEY......Page 86
The question of cultural gender MIRJA LIIKKANEN......Page 100
Cultural fronts: towards a dialogical understanding of contemporary cultures JORGE A. GONZLEZ......Page 117
Superculture for the Communication Age JAMES LULL......Page 143
Contemporary cultural forms......Page 176
Cultural theory in popular culture and media spectacles MICHAEL REAL......Page 178
Visual culture PAUL MESSARIS......Page 190
Star culture STEPHEN HINERMAN......Page 204
Computers, the Internet, and virtual cultures STEVE JONES AND STEPHANIE KUCKER......Page 223
Index......Page 237