Culture the Communication Age

CONTENTS

Notes on contributors vii
Introduction: Why the Communication Age? 1
JAMES LULL
SECTION ONE
The foundations of culture 7
1 Culture of the mind: on the origins of meaning and
emotion 9
EDWARD C. STEWART
2 Rethinking the foundations of culture 31
EDUARDO NEIVA
3 Thinking about culture in a global ecumene 54
ULF HANNERZ
SECTION TWO
Making sense of culture 73
4 From ways of life to lifestyle: rethinking culture as
ideology and sensibility 75
DAVID C. CHANEY
5 The question of cultural gender 89
MIRJA LIIKKANEN
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6 Cultural fronts: towards a dialogical understanding of
contemporary cultures 106
JORGE A. GONZÁLEZ
7 Superculture for the Communication Age 132
JAMES LULL
SECTION THREE
Contemporary cultural forms 165
8 Cultural theory in popular culture and media spectacles 167
MICHAEL REAL
9 Visual culture 179
PAUL MESSARIS
10 Star culture 193
STEPHEN HINERMAN
11 Computers, the Internet, and virtual cultures 212
STEVE JONES AND STEPHANIE KUCKER
Index 226