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Creativity has become a buzzword and key issue in debates about cultural policy, human growth and the media and cultural industries. It has also become a very misused term used to describe anything from musical and artistic genius, to shady financial accounting, to the teaching of children and the management of employees. But what does it mean?. Negus and Pickering provide a clear and logical way of understanding what we describe as creative, and how this term has become central to attaching cultural value. Their book:. · Develops an approach which enables us to think of creativity as both ordinary and exceptional. · Focuses on creativity as a way of rethinking key concepts in the study of culture such as:. Convention; innovation; tradition and experience. This book is useful to those studying Media and Cultural Studies who need to understand Cultural Production, Communication, Popular Culture and Cultural Theory. more...

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Critical Communication Studies provides a substantive foundation for the understanding of the history and development of communication studies as a critical discipline. more...

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Leading scholars examine such shows as The X-Files; Star Trek; Xena, Warrior Princess; and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to determine the defining characteristics of cult television and map the contours of this phenomenon within the scope of popular culture. more...

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This book is not quite the usual introduction to cultural studies an academic field that we can define, without messing about, as the engaged analysis of contemporary cultures. Cultural studies is engaged in three different senses. First, in the sense that it is not neutral in relation to the exclusions, injustices and prejudices that it observes. It tends to position itself on the side of those to whom social structures offer least, so that here engaged means political, critical. Second, it is engaged in that it aims to enhance and celebrate cultural experiences: to communicate enjoyment of a wide variety of cultural forms in part by analysing them and their social underpinnings.And third, and this marks its real difference from other kinds of academic work, it aims to deal with culture as a part of everyday life, without objectifying it. In fact cultural studies aspires to join to engage in the world, itself. more...

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A wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing world of cyberculture. more...

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