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CULTURE IN THE
COMMUNICATION AGE

What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What is the nature of
culture today? How have cultural identities changed in globalization?
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 life in the ‘Communication Age’,
and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global connectivity, mass
media, information technology, and popular culture. Individual chapters
consider:

• Culture of the Mind
• Rethinking the Foundations of Culture
• Culture in the Global Ecumene
• From ‘Ways of Life’ to ‘Lifestyle’
• Cultural Gender
• Cultural Fronts
• Superculture
• Popular Culture and Media Spectacles
• Visual Culture
• Star Culture
• Computers, the Internet, and Virtual Cultures.

Contributors: David C. Chaney, Jorge A. González, Ulf Hannerz, Stephen
Hinerman, Steve Jones, Stephanie Kucker, Mirja Liikkanen, James Lull, Paul
Messaris, Eduardo Neiva, Michael Real, Edward C. Stewart.

James Lull is Professor of Communication Studies at San José State University,
California. He is author or editor of ten books, including Media, Communication,
Culture: A Global Approach (Polity 2000), Media Scandals (Polity 1997), Popular
Music and Communication (Sage 1992), China Turned On (Routledge 1991) and
World Families Watch Television (Sage 1988).