Globalization culture

Author: John Tomlinson
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Publish Date: 2002-04-04
Features: This book first analyzes the relationship between the process of globalization and contemporary cultural change, then connects this analysis to the related debates about the modernity of society and the modernity of culture. The core of this book is an in-depth and detailed analysis of the complex and ambiguous "lived experience" of global modernity. Tomlinson argues that we can now see a dissolving universal pattern in the interplay between cultural experiences and regional places. The author discusses the "uneven" nature of this experience and its relationship with Third World societies, as well as explores the issue of cultural hybridization and the special role of communication and media technologies in this "non-territorial expansion" process. Globalization and Culture concludes by discussing the cultural politics of cosmopolitanism.