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As the 'digital code' begins to penetrate the whole of our social fabric, we are increasingly conscious of living in a new era whose scale, dimensions and implications we do not fully comprehend. 'Interactivity', 'virtual reality' and 'global communications' are some of the most obvious dimensions of this new reality. Its implications include new cross-media acquisitions and mergers by players like Murdoch, Viacom and Disney and major questions about the future of printed word and reading. This book does not attempt to offer a broad survey of the new 'digital age' in all its aspects. Instead, it restricts its questions to cultural standards and the issue of quality in media, to questions with an unavoidably normative content. Culture First! challenges two fashionable arguments in cultural studies and media studies: that, in the modern 'digital age' of reproduction and simulation, technological change has made traditional conceptions of standards and quality in media obsolescent; that we can feel secure about standards in the face of evidence that the user of media is actively selecting, interpreting and remaking media culture. Culture First! argues that the proper study of culture is normative; and that the proper, and neglected, purpose of cultural studies should be the nurturing of normative argument and judgement. This purpose can be better pursued if we return to the distinction between our 'best self' and our 'ordinary self' when thinking about cultural questions; if we seek to articulate and think rigorously about aesthetic and ethical standards; and if we recognize the specific cultural values of the printed word and reading as an activity and that the printed word is more thanjust a medium.
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About the Author
Kenneth Dyson is Research Professor in European Political Studies at Cardiff University, UK.
Rabbi Walter Homolka is former Chief of Staff at Bertelsmann AG and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Greenpeace Germany and current Executive Director of the Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0304337722
- ISBN 13 9780304337729
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages160
- EditorDyson Kenneth, Homolka Walter
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