Culture in the Communication Age

James Lull9780415221177, 041522117X, 0415221161

Книга Culture in the Communication Age Culture in the Communication AgeКниги Наука. Техника Автор: James Lull Год издания: 2000 Формат: pdf Издат.:Routledge Страниц: 256 Размер: 14,3 ISBN: 041522117X Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка: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

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Colophon……Page 5
CONTENTS……Page 6
INTRODUCTION……Page 12
Section One: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURE……Page 18
On the origins ofmeaning and emotion……Page 20
Emergence of modern humans……Page 21
The predator-prey paradigm……Page 22
Fear and anger……Page 24
The demon ofwar……Page 26
Symbolic evidence for the formation of human nature……Page 27
The politics ofcultural relativism……Page 28
Culture as meaning……Page 29
Mapping nuclear culture: the Cultural Trilogy……Page 33
Elements ofthe Cultural Trilogy……Page 35
The importance ofbasic emotions……Page 36
Conclusion……Page 38
Appendix 1.1: The twelve parameters of the Cultural Trilogy……Page 39
A critique of the anthropological illusion……Page 42
Cultural function and singularity……Page 44
Nature, culture……Page 46
Predatory interaction and the semiotic theater……Page 50
Animal groups: co-operation and conflict within species……Page 54
A communicative exchange……Page 55
Animal sociability and human groups……Page 57
Conclusion……Page 59
3. THINKING ABOUT CULTURE IN A GLOBAL ECUMENE……Page 65
In a Washington neighborhood……Page 66
In an African town……Page 67
In the global ecumene……Page 69
Cultural confluences……Page 70
Actors and relationships……Page 72
Among the foreign correspondents……Page 76
Conclusion: cultural analysis as an everyday practice……Page 79
Section Two: MAKING SENSE OF CULTURE……Page 84
Rethinking culture as ideology and sensibility……Page 86
Language and cultural symbolism……Page 90
Lifestyle……Page 92
Authenticity, sensibility……Page 95
5. THE QUESTION OF CULTURAL GENDER……Page 100
Cultural representations of gender……Page 102
The ‘dead end’ of empirical gender research……Page 107
Feminists and ordinary women: research as powerful practise……Page 109
Towards better understanding gender and culture……Page 110
6. CULTURAL FRONTS: TOWARDS A DIALOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURES……Page 117
Hegemony and cultural fronts……Page 118
Cultural fronts: the fundamentally human formations at stake……Page 119
Facing plural identities: communication between cultural fields and social networks……Page 121
Borders and arenas: open concepts……Page 124
Entering the cultural fronts……Page 126
Constructing cultural fronts: the methodological strategies……Page 127
Structure……Page 128
History……Page 129
Situation……Page 133
Symbolism……Page 135
Conclusion: cultural fronts, grounded reflexivity, and empowerment……Page 138
7. SUPERCULTURE FOR THE COMMUNICATION AGE……Page 143
Why ‘superculture’?……Page 144
Technology and cultural programming……Page 145
Connectivity and community……Page 147
Symbolic variety and cultural discursivity……Page 148
The cultural spheres……Page 149
Universal values……Page 150
International cultural imagery……Page 153
Civilizations……Page 156
Nation……Page 161
Superculture as cultural performance……Page 166
Supercultural identities……Page 168
A cosmopolitan utopia?……Page 170
Section Three: CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL FORMS……Page 176
Defining culture and ‘destabilizing privileged assumptions’……Page 178
Historical convergence: colonial anthropology and media technology……Page 181
Diana’s funeral and popular culture theory……Page 182
The importance of ‘the popular’ and media celebrity……Page 184
The globalization of media sport culture……Page 185
Unscrewing the inscrutable: over-rationalizing culture in the name of theory……Page 187
Print-making and cognition……Page 190
Truth and falsehood in photography……Page 193
Movie fantasies and personal realities……Page 196
Television and global media……Page 199
Conclusion……Page 201
10. STAR CULTURE……Page 204
The parameters of global media stardom……Page 207
Fame and renown in history……Page 209
Time, space, and fame in modernity and postmodernity……Page 212
The production ofstardom……Page 214
The star system……Page 215
Consuming stardom……Page 218
Fan identity……Page 219
The future ofcelebrity……Page 221
11. COMPUTERS, THE INTERNET, AND VIRTUAL CULTURES……Page 223
Perspectives on Internetworking……Page 225
Internetworking and community……Page 228
Community, connection, space, and culture……Page 229
Conclusion……Page 233
INDEX……Page 237