Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide - Softcover

Wise, J. MacGregor

 
9780631235392: Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631235396 ISBN 13: 9780631235392
Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization.

  • Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music
  • Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies
  • Considers how global processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others
  • Provides an original and stimulating overview of theories of culture and globalization, encouraging
    students think more broadly about the key issues

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

J. Macgregor Wise is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Exploring Technology and Social Space (1997), co-author (with Jennifer Daryl Slack) of Culture and Technology: A Primer (2005), and co-author (with Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney) of the second edition of MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2006).

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Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal and idiosyncratic journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, J. Macgregor Wise presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture.

This lively and engaging book draws on a myriad of examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. It is a vivid reminder that global processes are a part of who we are and what we do, and that these same processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others.

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Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal and idiosyncratic journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, J. Macgregor Wise presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture.

This lively and engaging book draws on a myriad of examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. It is a vivid reminder that global processes are a part of who we are and what we do, and that these same processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others.

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Verlag
*Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0631235396
ISBN 13 
9780631235392
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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