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"This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. 0If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century."

Au-delà des effets de mode ou de conjoncture, qu'est-ce qui se cache sous le regain d'intérêt pour l'entreprise — y compris chez les sociologues du travail ? Comment comprendre le recours, aujourd'hui fréquent, à la notion séduisante mais controversée de culture d'entreprise pour rendre compte de la réflexion ? C'est par une analyse monographique centrée sur le cas d'une PME de province que l'auteur s'attaque à ces questions. On nous décrit une situation où identité ouvrière — que symbolise ici la figure du croquant, simple travailleur, méprisé, exploité mais façonneur d'histoire — et culture d'entreprise, loin de s'opposer, tendent à se rejoindre. Mais ce processus d'identification à la norme n'exclut pas le conflit. La singularité, mais aussi l'intérêt de l'exemple choisi tiennent au fait qu'on y retrouve, exacerbées à l'extrême, les bases de l'intégration industrielle, telles que décrites par Marx et Durkheim : cette tension contradictoire entre coopération et conflit.

Abstract: This literature study researched Adbusters, the anti-commercial organization, and described the organization's activities and media usage, mainly in the period of 2007-2010, which critized the populer culture. Adbusters is an organization which performs "Culture Jammingâ€; a rebellious act reacting towards commercialism domination in many aspects including popular culture. Compared to other similar organizations, Adbusters has been executing more various activisms using several media which other organizations do not use. This study used the Adbusters' official website and blogs as main data sources. The data of Adbusters' activities and media usage were categorized and analyzed, thus the tendency of its development can be described. This study also analyzed Adbusters' activity using Media Hegemony Theory and Political Economy Media Theory. The media has been dominated by a certain group that owns politic and economic power, so the information flow has been dominated by them. Media and its contents have been commercialized, thus capitalism and commercialism have been considered as a common system that should run the world. Adbusters has been trying to stop the domination and change the society's way of thinking into a more critical way of thinking. Abstrak: Studi literatur ini meneliti tentang Adbusters, sebuah organisasi anti komersial, dengan mendeskripsikan aktivitas serta penggunaan media organisasi tersebut dari tahun 2007-2010 dalam mengkritisi budaya populer. Adbusters adalah organisasi yang melakukan Culture Jamming, aksi perlawanan terhadap dominasi komersialisme di segala aspek termasuk popular culture. Dibandingkan dengan organisasi lain yang serupa, aktivitas Adbusters lebih bervariasi dan menggunakan media-media yang tidak biasa digunakan organisasi lain. Penelitian ini menggunakan situs online resmi Adbusters sebagai sumber data utama. Data mengenai aktivitas dan penggunaan media Adbusters dikategorisasi dan dianalisis sehingga kecenderungan perkembangan organisasi ini dapat dideskripsikan. Penelitian ini juga menganalisis kegiatan Adbusters menggunakan Teori Hegemoni Media dan Teori Media Ekonomi Politik. Media telah didominasi oleh kelompok tertentu yang memiliki kekuasaan ekonomi serta politik, sehingga alur informasi juga didominasi kelompok tersebut. Media dan kontennya telah menjadi produk komersial, sehingga kapitalisme dan komersialisme itu sendiri dianggap sebagai sistem yang memang sudah seharusnya dijalankan di dunia. Adbusters berusaha menghentikan dominasi tersebut dan mengubah cara pikir masyarakat menjadi lebih kritis.

En collaboration avec Hommes & Migrations, l'émission «Voix du Silence », produite par Antoine Spire avec l'assistance de Jeannette Patzierkovsky, programme sur France Culture le samedi 1er décembre 1990 à 10h, une enquête sur le service national des jeunes issus de l'immigration.
De cette émission, nous reproduisons ici le témoignage de trois jeunes ayant récemment effectué leur service militaire dans l'armée française. D'après Rachid Kaci et plus encore Malik Zeghdoudi, Français d'origine algérienne, il semblerait qu'une frange des sous-officiers, à l'instar de la société française, ne soit pas épargnée par la tentation raciste. Jean-Luc Simon, originaire des Antilles, n'a pas quant à lui été victime du «racisme ordinaire» lorsqu'il était conscrit, c'est-à-dire jusqu'en septembre 1990. Ces expériences, banales ou malheureuses, ne valent bien sûr que pour elles-mêmes. Si on ne doit pas généraliser à partir de cas individuels, on peut tout de même s'interroger sur un malaise qui, d'après les conclusions mêmes du rapport Biville, touche une part non négligeable des appelés d'origine maghrébine.

Culture as Text, Text as Culture represents a novel, interdisciplinary analysis of textuality as it pertains to Cultural Studies. More specifically, the work examines how the analysis of texts has shaped the most vital contemporary debate of Cultural Studies: the recognition that all texts and their contexts are constructs. Building upon a Post-structural/Post-modern understanding of truth as a construct, Cultural Studies has long since acknowledged the ability of texts to express the time and culture of their origin. This work, however, expands this idea, demonstrating not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history. This compendium is structured around four of the most prominent contemporary topics of Cultural Studies: the relationship between historical and fictional writing, the ability of authors to recreate or redefine history, the relationship between language and image, and the ability for traditionally marginalized groups to reassert their place in history. The book presents articles from a large spectrum of disciplinary fields and civilizations in order to demonstrate how the application of Cultural Studies can unite seemingly disparate disciplines.

Organizational culture isn't just a hot topic - it's an untapped asset and potential liability for all businesses. And yet, for all its potential to make or break, few know how to manage cultures with proficiency. Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @Work provides the much-needed "how-to" with Design of Work Experience (DOWE). Tapping into human-centered design, interdisciplinary innovation concepts, and other research, this leading edge approach partners employees and their employers in unprecedented ways to co-create solutions and differentiating experiences that are customized, relevant, and profoundly impactful to the organizations for which they are intended - all while building employee engagement, learning agility, and capability. Be open to changing mindsets, for this is not your typical business book. Part-business case, part-instructional, and part-commentary, the guidance offered here puts your organization--not some detached case studies - at the center to envision how DOWE can help you design solutions and experiences unique to your context. Culture will no longer be esoteric or intangible, but overt, meaningful, fully leveraged, and truly experienced. No more hacking through trial and error to a culture that lacks sustainability. We can practice the management of culture and organizational change through lived experiences, with intention, rigor, and discipline. Leaders, managers, teams, and employees alike will benefit from understanding the need for this approach, how it's defined, why it works, and what to do to successfully tackle business challenges and positively influence lives with this innovative model if you are willing to do the work to get there.

This paper shows how regeneration policies in Bradford (UK) have over the years been modified following local, national and international events since 1997. It will be argued that policy makers reacted to public perceptions of the city itself and of its large Muslim community in three phases: celebration of local minority ethnic culture; pathologization of the same; exclusion of any cultural element from the city's self-projection. The paper suggests that these changes are at the same time reflexive of historical events and hegemonic discourses, and likely to be constitutive (as they have the potential to deeply affect social relations in the city). Further investigation is required to measure such constitutive long-term effects on minority ethnic groups and social relations in the city.