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Brian Longhurst
How do we belong?

How is culture changing?

How important are the media?
Cultural Change and Ordinary Life
distinguish themselves from others.
Penguin Dictionary of Media Studies
that have looked at social processes.
How is ordinary life being transformed?
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(2007).
(1998), Globalization and Society
CULTURAL CHANGE AND ORDINARY LIFE
theories and accounts of social and cultural change.
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This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the
author, his publications include, Popular Music and Society
Brian Longhurst argues that our social and cultural lives are
(2004) and The
edition, 2007), and as co-author, Introducing Cultural Studies
new ways of belonging, where among other things they seek to
internationally recognized sociologist and experienced textbook
of Arts, Media and Social Sciences at Salford University, UK. An
understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It
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and salience of the media. These changes involve people forging
explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent
in everyday life are changing due to the ever-growing importance
change, especially with respect to globalization and hybridization,
in the media and ordinary life in the context of large-scale cultural
activities. He makes the case that analysis of the media has to be
is key reading for students and
researchers of sociology, media studies, cultural studies and mass
becoming increasingly audienced and performed and that activities
brought into a more thorough dialogue with other forms of research
(second
Cultural Change and Ordinary Life, Longhurst evaluates changes
is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty
fragmentation, spectacle and performance, and enthusing or fan-like
(2003),
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Series editors:

SOCIOLOGY
Alan

and
Longhurst
SOCIAL CHANGE

Warde and

and ORDINARY LIFE
CULTURAL CHANGE
Nick Crossley