Problems of Cultural Analysis and Policy in the Information Age  

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McGuigan, Jim

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies vol. 1 no. 2 (Mei 2001), page 190-219.
Topik: culture; ICTs; Policy
Fulltext: 190CS12.pdf (150.51KB)

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The termculture is now used in so many different ways that its analytical utility is in doubt. For policy-oriented cultural studies, it is wisest to concentrate on practices that are first and foremost about signification, identity, and pleasure. Also, policy-oriented research should not be reduced to administrative usefulness. From a critical perspective, technological determinism in communications and culture must be treated with skepticism. In this connection, Manuel Castells's information age thesis is examined. The adequacy of his model of inclusion and exclusion is additionally called into question. Despite its many strengths, Castells's thesis distracts attention from processes that are anterior to—albeit mediated by—the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), most notably exploitation on a global scale. In contrast, Naomi Klein's research focuses on the material and ideological connections of branding culture—which is indeed "culture" because it foregrounds signification, identity, and pleasure—to the extreme exploitation of sweatshop labor.

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