ABSTRACT

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

chapter |6 pages

INTRODUCTION

Why the Communication Age?

part |2 pages

Section One THE FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURE

chapter 1|22 pages

CULTURE OF THE MIND

On the origins of meaning and emotion

part |2 pages

Section Two MAKING SENSE OF CULTURE

chapter 4|14 pages

FROM WAYS OF LIFE TO LIFESTYLE

Rethinking culture as ideology and sensibility

chapter 5|17 pages

THE QUESTION OF CULTURAL GENDER

part |2 pages

Section Three CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL FORMS