Culture in the Communication Age (Comedia)

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