This work examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilized both by patterns of migration and by communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyzes the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness and mobility experienced by members of social groups, and relates the micro-structures of the home, the family and the domestic realm, to contemporary debates about the nation, community and cultural identities. He explores issues such as the role of...

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us...

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us...

From the Windrush immigration of the 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain, this volume examines the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with 18 articles, contributors explore themes such as popular culture, sport, religion, education, carnival, community and race relations, and consider the impact of Black culture on British life, and the tense relationship between successful Black public figures and the media. Featuring interviews with noted...

From the Windrush immigration of the 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain, this volume examines the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with 18 articles, contributors explore themes such as popular culture, sport, religion, education, carnival, community and race relations, and consider the impact of Black culture on British life, and the tense relationship between successful Black public figures and the media. Featuring interviews with noted...

This work investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality at the margins of contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood to Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez, Chris Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance marks them as unusual or exceptional, and yet who occupy key and revealing positions in today's mainstream cinema. Exploring a range of genres and considering both stars and their sidekicks, Holmlund examines ways in which Hollywood accommodates - or doesn't - a variety of impossible bodies, from the outrageous physiques of...

This work investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality at the margins of contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood to Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez, Chris Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance marks them as unusual or exceptional, and yet who occupy key and revealing positions in today's mainstream cinema. Exploring a range of genres and considering both stars and their sidekicks, Holmlund examines ways in which Hollywood accommodates - or doesn't - a variety of impossible bodies, from the outrageous physiques of...

Focusing on the meetings between ordinary people and the media, this study explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves. Such encounters, the author argues, tell us a great deal about our attitudes towards the media world. They also offer a way of thinking about the media's impact on contemporary social life, the basis of their social authority, and the possibility of challenging it. Couldry draws on perspectives from anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology and geography as well...

This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves.

What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today?
Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means in the modern era. They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age', and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global communication, mass media, information technology, and popular culture. Individual chapters consider:
* Cultures of the mind *...