Everyday culture : finding and making meaning in a changing world / David Trend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trend, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Culture.

Physical Description:

viii, 207 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

Everyday Culture examines the confluence of cultural and material possibility-the bringing together of thought and action in daily life. David Trend argues that an informed and invigorated citizenry can help reverse patterns of dehumanization and social control. The impetus for Everyday Culture can be described in the observation by Raymond Williams that the "culture is ordinary," and that the fabric of meanings that inform and organize everyday life often go undervalued and unexamined. Everyday Culture shares with thinkers like Williams the conviction that it is precisely the ordinariness of culture that makes it extraordinarily important. The ubiquity of everyday culture means that it affects all aspects of contemporary economic, social, and political life. Jargon free, written for students and scholars alike. Vivid discussion of current debates over media violence, school curricula, technology, democracy, and globalization. Covers trends in the arts, popular culture, and new media. An intrepid introduction to cultural studies that students will long remember.

Contents:

Beginning : an introduction

History and the "everyday"

How the book is organized

Asking : questioning culture and consumption

Eeveryday culture

But is it art?

What everybody wants

Reading : language, communication, and new media

Literacies and media literacy

Violence in the media

Technology and the everyday

Finding : self and identity

Self and naming

Difference

Fear, ethics, everyday life

Joining : communities and publics

Dialogue and voice

Public opinion

Censorship and free speech

Building : globalization and democracy

Acting locally

Think globally

Democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594514265

1594514267

9781594514272

1594514275

OCLC:

129953569