Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why the Communication Age? / James Lull -- The foundations of culture -- Culture of the mind: on the origins of meaning and emotion / Edward C. Stewart -- Rethinking the foundations of culture / Eduardo Neiva -- Thinking about culture in a global ecumene / Ulf Hannerz -- Making sense of culture -- From ways of life to lifestyle: rethinking culture as ideology and sensibility / David C. Chaney -- The question of cultural gender / Mirja Liikkanen -- Cultural fronts: towards a dialogical understanding of contemporary cultures / Jorge A. Gonzalez -- Superculture for the Communication Age / James Lull -- Contemporary cultural forms -- Cultural theory in popular culture and media spectacles / Michael Real -- Visual culture / Paul Messaris -- Star culture / Stephen Hinerman -- Computers, the Internet, and virtual cultures / Steve Jones, Stephanie Kucker.

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.