Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analysed are the Marxist sociology of culture and poststructural/postmodern analysis
Autorentext
Ben Agger
Zusammenfassung
Internet-based applications such as blogs, social network sites, online chat forums, text messages, microblogs, and location-based communication services used from computers and smart phones represent central resources for organizing daily life and making sense of ourselves and the social worlds we inhabit. This interdisciplinary book explores the meanings of social media as a communicative condition for users in their daily lives; first, through a theoretical framework approaching social media as communicative genres and second, through empirical case studies of personal blogs, Twitter, and Facebook as key instances of the category of "e;social media,"e; which is still taking shape. Lomborg combines micro-analyses of the communicative functionalities of social media and their place in ordinary people's wider patterns of media usage and everyday practices.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 What is Cultural Studies?; Chapter 2 Popular Culture as Serious Business; Chapter 3 Marxist Theories of Culture; Chapter 4 The Frankfurt School's Aesthetic Politics; Chapter 5 The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies; Chapter 6 Poststructuralism and Postmodernism on Culture; Chapter 7 Feminist Cultural Studies; Chapter 8 Needs, Values and Cultural Criticism; Chapter 9 Deprogramming the Cult of Cultural Studies; Chapter 10 Cultural Studies as Everyday Life in the Society of the Spectacle;