Mon 28th November - James Lull

From Dave Morley, of potential interest to PACSF members:

Mon 28th November 6pm

Room 256 Goldsmiths Main Building.

The Push and Pull of Culture
Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitanism in a Crisis World

James Lull

Professor Emeritus
San José State University, California, USA

The push of culture represents the socializing influences that become partof our lives implicitly-the collective "demands of culture." The pull side emphasizes how individuals today have become active agents of personal cultural construction-"culture-on-demand." Tensions between the push and pull tendencies create uncertainties and threats, but also offer tremendous hope for the long term. Mass media, the culture industries, information technology, and personal communications technologies interact to promotethe discourses and forms of social interaction that will shape the future of our precarious world.

James Lull is one of the leading scholars in the study of transnationalcultures. His books include Culture in the Communication Age (2001), Media,Communication, Culture : a Global Approach (2000), China Turned On: TV, Reform and Resistance (1991) and World Families Watch TV (1988). Besidesthe USA, he has taught at Universities in China, Mexico, Venezuela,Argentina, Brazil, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.

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