Just researched him and his ideas on the internet and thought I'd blog about it....
Lunenfeld's background is in film and television and media studies.
Lunenfeld doesn't believe there is such a thing as single media culture anymore, in fact he sees as facets of cultural production as kinds of "ferocious pluralism".
He believes that although we do not attempt to be popular culture we engage with popular culture in all it's forms.
Lunenfeld believes "there is no end to the ways in which meaningful culture is more meaningful than mindless production, no matter how participatory".
He believes different medias have different cultures and for the past 50 years or so western culture has been defined by the television. He recognises the changes in media, for example the computer having more potential than a television ever could, vinyls being replaced by CD's and VHS by DVD.
He refers to computers as 'culture machines' as they lead to a previously unimaginable level of informations.
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Alyson,
It may be worth emailing your fellow study-group bloggers, as recently a few of your posts don't have comments on. They should be commenting on yours and you should be commenting on theirs....so just a gentle email reminder wouldn't go amiss....as you are all assessed on your contributions to each others blogs. When you comment on theirs, don't forget to include a comment on the forum, to say that you have donw this.
Regarding your post, it's useful to research on the Internet, but it would be much better to also include the websites that your information was gained from. There is a reference to Lunenfeld in the Lister book on p.21 too, so perhaps you could have a look at this?
All the best
Emma
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