Everyday Culture Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World

Name: Everyday Culture Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World
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ISBN: 9781594514272

ISBN-10: 1594514275

ISBN-13: 9781594514272

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Trend

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Everyday People 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 People 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 People 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…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.03" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface: Everyday Culture



Beginning: An Introduction


History and the "Everyday"


How the Book Is Organized


Notes



Asking: Questioning Culture and Consumption


Everyday Culture


But Is It Art?


What Everybody Wants


Notes



Reading: Language, Communication, and New Media


Literacies and Media Literacy


Violence in the Media


Technology and the Everyday


Notes



Finding: Self and Identity


Self and Naming


Difference


Fear, Ethics, Everyday Life


Notes



Joining: Communities and Publics


Dialogue and Voicee


Public Opinion


Censorship and Free Speech


Notes



Building: Globalization and Democracy


Acting Locally


Thinking Globally


Democracy


Notes


Index


About the Author