ISBN:
9780415095969
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
Series Statement:
International Library of Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Spaces of Identity : Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient
Description / Table of Contents:
SPACES OF IDENTITY Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Globalisation as Identity Crisis: The New Global Media Landscape; 2 Reimagined Communities? New Media, New Possibilities; 3 Culture, Community and Identity: Communications Technologies and the Reconfiguration of Europe; 4 Euroculture: Communication, Space and Time; 5 No Place Like Heimat: Images of Home(Land); 6 Tradition and Translation: National Culture in its Global Context; 7 Under Western Eyes: Media, Empire and Otherness; 8 Techno-Orientalism: Japan Panic
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The Politics of Silence: The Meaning of Community and the uses of Media10 The End of What? Postmodernism, History and the West; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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