Popular culture

READING MATTER: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON MATERIAL CULTURE by Arthur Asa Berger (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1992 — $24.95, ISBN 0–88738–435–8, 148 pp.)

MEN, MASCULINITY, AND THE MEDIA edited by Steve Craig (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992 — $42.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8039–4162–5 hard, 0–8039–4163–3 soft, 271 pp.)

13TH GEN: ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE, FAIL? by Neil Howe and Bill Strauss (New York: Vintage, 1993 — $10.00, paper, ISBN 0–679–74365–0, 229 pp.)

ENLIGHTENED RACISM: THE COSBY SHOW, AUDIENCES, AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $39.95/14.95, ISBN 0–8133–1418–6 hard, 0–8133–1419–4 soft, 152 pp.)

POPULAR WRITING IN AMERICA: THE INTERACTION OF STYLE AND AUDIENCE, 5th ed. edited by Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan (New York: Oxford, 1993 — $22.95, paper, ISBN 0–19–507308–8, 735 pp.)

TRIUMPH OF THE IMAGE: THE MEDIA'S WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF — A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE edited by Hamid Mowlana, George Gerbner, and Herbert I. Schiller (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $55.00/19.95, ISBN 0–8133–1532–8 hard, 0–8133–1610–3 soft, 269 pp.)

POPULAR CULTURE: AN INTRODUCTORY TEXT edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1992 — $45.95/23.95, ISBN 0–87972–571–0 hard, 0–87972–572–9 soft, 504 pp.)

VIDEO ICONS & VALUES edited by Alan M. Olson, Christopher Parr and Debra Parr (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991 — $59.50/18.95, ISBN 0–7914–0411–0 hard, 0–7914–0412–9 soft, 189 pp.)

POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT RESEARCH: HOW TO DO IT AND HOW TO USE IT by Barbara J. Pruett (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1992 — $62.50, ISBN 0–8108–2501–5, 592 pp.)

WATERGATE IN AMERICAN MEMORY: HOW WE REMEMBER, FORGET, AND RECONSTRUCT THE PAST by Michael Schudson (New York: Basic Books, 1992 — $24.00, ISBN 0–465–09084–2, 282 pp.)

THE MADONNA CONNECTION: REPRESENTATIONAL POLITICS, SUBCULTURAL IDENTITIES, AND CULTURAL THEORY edited by Cathy Schwichtenberg (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992 — $55.00/17.95, ISBN 0–8133–1396–1 hard, 0–8133–1397‐X soft, 336 pp.)

WEST OF EVERYTHING: THE INNER LIFE OF WESTERNS by Jane Tompkins (New York: Oxford, 1992 — $21.95, ISBN 0–19–507305–3, 245 pp.)

MEDIAMERICA, MEDIAWORLD: FORM, CONTENT, AND CONSEQUENCES OF MASS COMMUNICA TION (5th ed.) by Edward Jay Whetmore (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993 —$36.00, paper ISBN 0–534–17934–7, 492 pp.)

HARDBOILED IN HOLLYWOOD: FIVE BLACK MASK WRITERS AND THE MOVIES by David Wilt (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1991 — $40.95/19.95, ISBN 0–87972–525–7 hard, 0–87972–526–5 soft, 189 pp.)

ADOLF HITLER AND THE THIRD REICH IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1923–1939 by Michael Zalampas (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1989 — $35.95/18.95, ISBN 0–87972–461–7 hard, 0–87972–462–5 soft, 266 pp.)     

Popular culture

SEX, ART, AND AMERICAN CULTURES by Camille Paglia (New York: Vintage, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–679–74101 ‐1,335 pp.)

SHELF LIFE: MODERN PACKAGE DESIGN, 1920–1945 by Jerry Jankowski (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992— $14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8118–0075‐X, 119 pp.)

STAR WARS: FROM CONCEPT TO SCREEN TO COLLECTIBLE by Stephen J. Sansweet (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992—$29.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8118–0101–2 hard, 0–8118–0092–2 soft, 131 pp.)

LAURIE ANDERSON by John Howell (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992—$11.95, paper, ISBN 1–56025–029–1,160 pp.)

JANE & MICHAEL STERN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POP CULTURE (New York: HarperCollins, 1992—$35.00, ISBN 0–06–096972–5, 593 pp.)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FADS by Frank Hoffman and Bill Bailey (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1992—$19.95 paper, ISBN 0‐ 918393–72–8, 377 pp.)

HARD AT PLAY: LEISURE IN AMERICA, 1840–1940 edited by Kathryn Grover (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992— $50.00/16.95, ISBN, 0–87023–792–6 hard, 0–87023–793–4, soft, 262 pp.)

CULTURE WARS: THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE AMERICA by James Davison Hunter (New York: Basic Books, 1992— $13.00, paper, ISBN 0–465‐ 01534–4, 416 pp.)

FREE SPEECH FOR ME—BUT NOT FOR THEE: HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT AND RIGHT RELENTLESSLY CENSOR EACH OTHER by NatHentoff (New York: HarperCollins, 1992— $25.00, ISBN 0–06–019006‐X, 405 pp.),

HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE WAR ON TRADITIONAL VALUES by Michael Medved (New York: Harper Collins, 1992—$20.00, ISBN 0–06–016882‐X, 386 pp.)

CARNIVAL CULTURE: THE TRASHING OF TASTE IN AMERICA by James B. Twitched (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–231–07830–7, 305 pp.)

THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE: MEDIA AND THE URBAN ARTS by Diana Crane (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992— $14.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–3693–1, 198 pp.),

THE CREATION OF JAZZ: MUSIC, RACE, AND CULTURE IN URBAN AMERICA by Burton W. Peretti (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992—$29.95, ISBN 0–252–01708–0, 277 pp.)     

Popular culture

POPULAR CULTURE GENRES: THEORIES AND TEXTS by Arthur Asa Berger (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992—$14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8039–4726–7, 171 pp.)

ROCK FORMATION: MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY, AND MASS COMMUNICATION by Steve Jones (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992—$14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8039–4443–8, 223 pp.)

DANCING IN THE DISTRACTION FACTORY: MUSIC TELEVISION AND POPULAR CULTURE by Andrew Goodman (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1992—$16.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–206306, 237 pp.)

MAKING THINGS PERFECTLY QUEER; INTERPRETING MASS CULTURE by Alexander Doty (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993—$15.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–2245–0, 146 pp.)

CHIC THRILLS: A FASHION READER by Juliet Ash and Elizabeth Wilson (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993—$15.00 paper, ISBN 0–520–08339–3, 257 pp.)

FASHION, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY by Fred Davis (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–226–13808–9, 226 pp.)

PASTIME: TELLING TIME FROM 1879 TO 1969 by Philip Collins (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95, ISBN 0–8118–278–7, 106 pp.)

EN ROUTE: LABEL ART FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AIR TRAVEL by Lynn Johnson & Michael O'Leary (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0045–8, 120 pp.)

MADE IN JAPAN: TRANSISTOR RADIOS OF THE 1950S AND 1960S by Roger Handy, Maureen Erbe, and Aileen Farnan Antonier (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0271‐X, 108 pp.)

PHONO‐GRAPHICS: THE VISUAL PARAPHERNALIA OF THE TALKING MACHINE by Arnold Schwartzman (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95 paper, ISBN 0–8118–0302–3, 120 pp.)

DANGER IS MY BUSINESS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FABULOUS PULP MAGAZINES; 1896–1953, by Lee Server (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$27.50/17.95, ISBN 0–8118–0355–4 cloth, 0–8118–0112–8 paper, 144 pp.)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 72 DAYS: THE RACE BETWEEN PULITZER'S NELLIE BLY AND COSMOPOLITAN'S ELIZABETH BISLAND by Jason Marks (New York: Gemittarius Press, 1993—$12.95 paper, ISBN 0–9633696–2‐8, 261 pp.)

MALE TROUBLE edited by Constance Penley and Sharon Wilis (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993—$16.95 paper, ISBN 0‐ 8166–2172–1, 316 pp.)

ECSTASY UNLIMITED: ON SEX, CAPITAL, GENDER, AND AESTHETICS by Laura Kipnis (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993—$18.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–1997–2, 308 pp.)

BLUES AND EVIL by John Michael Spencer (Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, 1993—$18.95 paper, ISBN 0–87049–783–9, 177 pp.)

PERSONAL DISCIPLINE AND MATERIAL CULTURE: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, 1695–1870 by Paul A. Shackel (Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, 1993—$27.95, ISBN 0–87049–784–7,225 pp.)

ANTI‐ROCK: THE OPPOSITION TO ROCK ‘N'ROLL by Linda Martin and Kerry Seagrave (New York: Da Capo, 1993—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0–306–80502–2, 374 pp.)     

大众文化（Mass culture）

大众文化是指工业化、城市化、市场化社会中为普通民众生产,并为普通民众所参与和消费的一切物质、符号、观念和活动。大众文化,是伴随着工业化、都市化和市场化的历史进程,由于现代都市大众的出现,以及随着教育程度的提高而出现的具有读写能力大众的形成,特别是由于技术的进步所带来的大众传播媒介的出现,市场化的文化机制的形成,才逐步形成的具有明显消费主义意识形态的文化。大众文化这一概念最早出现在西班牙哲学家奥尔特加《民众的反叛》一书中。主要指的是一地区、一社团、一个国家中新近涌现的,被大众所信奉、接受的文化。     

图书馆管理文化与文化管理

本文分别就图书馆管理文化和图书馆文化管理的概念等基本问题简单做了说明，对二者的关系进行了深入的分析。     

图书馆制度文化

通过对图书馆制度化的含义和图书馆制度化在图书馆化中的作用的分析，论述图书馆制度化对图书馆个体与组织之间的关系，图书馆献资源建设和图书馆价值取向的影响，并对未来图书馆制度化吸收，创新与建设提出了建议。     

Technology and culture

INTERFACE CULTURE: HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMS THE WAY WE CREATE AND COMMUNICATE by Steven Johnson (San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997‐$24.00, ISBN 0–06–251433–4, 272 pp., index)

IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY: ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS edited by Mary Anne Moser with Douglas MacLeod (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997‐$22.50, ISBN 0–262–63183–0, 368 pp., technical glossary, 64 illustrations, 18 in color)

INTERNET DREAMS: ARCHETYPES, MYTHS, AND METAPHORS by Mark Stefik (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996‐$30.00/$15.00, ISBN 0–262–19373–6 hard, 0–262–69202–3 paper, 412 pp., further reading, sources, contributors, index)

POSTMORTEM FOR A POSTMODERNIST by Arthur Asa Berger (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press/Sage, 1997‐$36.00/17.95, ISBN 0–8039–8910–2 hard, 0–8039–8911–0 paper, 184 pp., cartoons, bibliography, index)

THE NETWORKED SOCIETY: HOW TECHNOLOGIES ARE TRANSFORMING MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS: A Report of The Fifth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, Aspen, Colorado, August 15–18, 1996 by David Bollier and Charles M. Firestone (Washington: The Aspen Institute, 1997‐$10.00, ISBN 0–89843–213–8, 43 pp., endnotes, appendix)

THE McDONALDIZATION OF SOCIETY: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL LIFE by George Ritzer (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997 [2nd ed.]—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–9076–6 hard, 0–8039–9077–4 paper, 265 pp., bibliography, index)

PARCHMENT, PRINTING, AND HYPERMEDIA: COMMUNICATION IN WORLD ORDER TRANSFORMATION by Ronald J. Deibert (New York: Columbia University Press “New Directions in World Politics,”; 1997‐$49.50/$ 17.50, paper, ISBN 0–231–10712–9 hard, 0–231–10713–7 paper, 329 pp., illustrations, charts, index)

BEYOND THE HORIZON: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE by Stephen Lax (Luton, England: John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1997—price not given, ISBN 1–860–20514–3 paper, 133 pp., technical illustrations, index)

CYBERSCHOOLS: AN EDUCATION RENAISSANCE by Glenn R. Jones (Englewood, MA: Jones Digital Century, Inc., 1997—$19.95, ISBN 1–885400–60–8, 180 pp., appendices, index)

THE ORYX GUIDE TO DISTANCE LEARNING: A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF ELECTRONIC AND OTHER MEDIA‐ASSISTED COURSES by William E. Burgess (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1997 [2nd ed.]—$98.50, ISBN 1–57356–073–1, 497 pp.)

THE U.S. ALL MEDIA E‐MAIL DIRECTORY: COMMUNICATE VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL WITH MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, TV AND RADIO MEDIA AND CONTACTS NATIONWIDE by Paul J. Krupin (Kennewick, WA: Direct Contact Publishing, 1997‐$49.00, ISBN 1–885035–03–9, 229 pp., index)

THE RISE, DECLINE, AND RENEWAL OF SILICON VALLEY'S HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY by Dan M. Khanna (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1997‐$52.00, ISBN 0–8153–2724–2, 182 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index)

THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE‐BASED RESOURCES IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY by Russell W. Wright (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1997‐$37.00, ISBN 0–8153–2785–4, 108 pp., tables, diagrams, bibliography, index)

MOTHS TO THE FLAME: THE SEDUCTIONS OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY by Gregory J. E. Rawlins (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997‐$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–68097–1, 184 pp., subject index)

TIME DETECTIVES: HOW SCIENTISTS USE MODERN TECHNOLOGY TO UNRAVEL THE SECRETS OF THE PAST by Brian Fagan (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995‐$14.00, paper, ISBN 0–684–81828–0, 288 pp., index)

COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLITICS IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Gerald Sussman (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997‐$56.00/$27.95, ISBN 0–8039–5139–6 hard, 0–8039–5140‐x paper, 317 pp., tables, references, subject index)

THE NEW COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES by Michael M.A. Mirabito with contributions by Barbara Morgenstern (Boston, MA: Focal Press, 1997 [3rd ed.]—$32.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80258–6, 256 pp., index)

COORDINATING THE INTERNET edited by Brian Kahin and James H. Keller (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “Publication of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project,”; 1997‐$25.00, paper, ISBN 0–262–11230–2 hard, 0–262–61136–8 paper, 491 pp., glossary of acronyms, tables, charts, notes, index)

THE INTERNET & WORLD WIDE WEB: THE ROUGH GUIDE by Angus J. Kennedy (London and New York: Rough Guides [distribution by Penguin Group], 1997‐$8.95, paper, ISBN 1–85828–288–8, 432 pp., illustrations, index)

TELECOMMUTING: MODELING THE EMPLOYER'S AND THE EMPLOYEE'S DECISION‐MAKING PROCESS by Adriana Bernardino (New York: Garland “Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity,”; 1996‐$46.00, ISBN 0–8153–2723–4, 169 pp., tables, charts, references survey instruments, index)     

网络文化与图书馆

论文阐述了网络文化的基本内涵，全面分析了图书馆与网络文化的关系，研究了图书馆在网络文化建设中的地位和作用，提出了面对网络文化的冲击图书馆应采取的相关策略和措施。     

民间收藏“纸文化”

专家点评: 你瞧,刘一达先生讲得多好:一张小纸片上的文字,往往有时代的烙印,历史的信息.文化有时需要历史的沉淀.现在看起来没用的东西,再过几十年,也许它就会成为有价值的东西.     

建设和谐的高校图书馆文化

高校图书馆化是由外显和内隐因素构成的化体系，具有凝聚人心、造就人才、规范管理、推动校园化的重要作用，21世纪高校图书馆化建设要充分体现时代性、人性、生态化，使图书馆化和谐发展。     

在书城里做中国书文化的学问--从《沧桑书城》到《苍茫书城》

徐雁先生梳理“中国藏书史”、呼吁“救救古旧书业”、呼唤“图书馆学优秀教育传统”的回归．体现了他书城中的“文化保守主义”观。     

对媒体制造大众文化的批判

与传统的文化形式相比 ,大众文化具有一种赤裸裸的商品性 ,市场需要是大众文化的惟一准则和终极目的 ,追求利润最大化为其根本目标 ;商业化的结果是对成本和生产效率的考虑 ,而运用流水线和标准化的方式更能降低成本 ,提高效率。这导致大众文化生产的标准化以及对个性的扼杀 ;从内容上讲 ,大众文化的内容具有平面化、浅薄、无深度等特点。它远离意识形态、理想主义和英雄主义 ,消解价值和意义 ,追逐平面化、享乐化     

Information culture in higher education

The problems of fostering information behavior in college and university students—understanding differences in information culture and literacy—are discussed. The fundamental concepts of information and library culture are presented.     

图书馆与"文化低保"

本文分析了文化弱势群体产生的原因，提出“文化低保”的内涵，着重阐述了图书馆在“文化低保”中的地位和作用以及图书馆为“文化低保”采取的措施。     

儒家文化与图书馆管理

儒家文化作为中国传统文化的主流价值系统,不仅在历史上产生过重大影响,而且对今天的社会生活也依然具有一定的启示意义。文章立足于图书馆管理这一特定角度,从儒家的人本思想与图书馆的管理理念、儒家的义利之道与图书馆的管理取向、儒家的贵和思想与图书馆的管理艺术、儒家的权变智慧与图书馆的管理机制等四个方面着眼,论述了儒家文化对当今图书馆管理工作的启示意义,并强调图书馆管理者接受儒家等优秀传统文化的启迪以管理好图书馆这一精神殿堂,正是遵循精神遗产管理之内在规律的体现。     

The concept of the information-security culture

The essence of the concept of the information-security culture is substantiated based on the functional concept of the culture, the protective development of the concept of security and ambivalence of information, and its ideal and material natures as an incarnation of dualistic monism in the context of realistic philosophy. A definition of the information-security culture is formulated.