1st Edition
Everyday Culture Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World
By David Trend
Copyright 2007
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface Chapter 1: Beginning: An Introduction History and the "Everyday" How the Book Is Organized Notes Chapter 2: Asking: Questioning Culture and Consumption Everday Culture But Is It Art? What Everybody Wants Notes Chapter 3: Reading: Language, Communication, and New Media Literacies and Media Literacy Violence in the Media Technology and the Everyday Notes Chapter 4: Finding: Self and Identity Self and Naming Difference Fear, Ethics, Everyday Life Notes Chapter 5: Joining: Communities and Publics Dialogue and Voice Public Opinion Censorship and Free Speech Notes Chapter 6: Building: Globalization and Democracy Acting Locally Thinking Globally Democracy Notes Index About the Author
Biography
David Trend
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“[David Trend] never gets bogged down in theory without providing good, concrete examples from everyday life.”
--Dennis Carlson, Miami University, Ohio
