Cultural Change and Ordinary Life

Longhurst, Brian

ISBN 10: 0335221874 / ISBN 13: 9780335221875

Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cultural Change and Ordinary Life
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335221874
• ISBN 13: 9780335221875
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

• How important are the media?
• How is culture changing?
• How is ordinary life being transformed?
• How do we belong?

This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent theories and accounts of social and cultural change.

Brian Longhurst argues that our social and cultural lives are becoming increasingly audienced and performed and that activities in everyday life are changing due to the ever-growing importance and salience of the media. These changes involve people forging new ways of belonging, where among other things they seek to distinguish themselves from others.

In Cultural Change and Ordinary Life, Longhurst evaluates changes in the media and ordinary life in the context of large-scale cultural change, especially with respect to globalization and hybridisation, fragmentation, spectacle and performance, and enthusing or fan-like activities. He makes the case that analysis of the media has to be brought into a more thorough dialogue with other forms of research that have looked at social processes.

Cultural Change and Ordinary Life is key reading for students and researchers of sociology, media studies, cultural studies and mass communication.

About the Author

Brian Longhurst is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences at Salford University, UK. An internationally recognised sociologist and experienced textbook author, his publications include, Popular Music and Society (Second edition, 2007), and as co-author Introducing Cultural Studies, Audiences, Globalization and Belonging (with M. Savage and G. Bagnall, 2005) and The Penguin Dictionary of Media Studies (with N. Abercrombie, 2007).