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Visual Color Symbolism Chart by Culture What Different Colors Mean in Different Cultures

"this age of fragmentation has allowed old media's disposable culture (trash TV like "Jersey Shore," faux-cialites like Speidi, tabloid news like Balloon Boy) to living on well past their normal expiration dates as prime meme material"

The small Dutch town of Spijkenisse celebrates the opening of its new cultural centre today. The Theatre de Stoep designed by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio…

I googled Media and Culture and this is the first thing that came up. It's a book that teaches about mass communication.

Good Work! We have this book if you want to borrow it. It's also all available online.

"Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products." "This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit our imagination".

This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.

This is the fundamental obstacle to understanding where technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everything.

An iconic cultural beacon, the Hangzhou Yuhang Opera House, designed by Henning Larsen, marks an unmistakable presence as it nestles on East Lake's expansive waterfront. Check it out here

Why does every important cultural centre in the world have a striking visual identity?

Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that climate change is becoming a part of the nation's culture wars.

Public art projects are manned with an intention of eliciting some cultural feedback and significant finsings in the ethos of a city and its peple. Is this truly accomplished? Check out Baptiste Debombourg's work at Nantes and leaev us your views…

Dr. Leeds will be talking about this next Tuesday (Oct. 28th) and I thought it applies to Media and Culture. The question is "Does the free market corrode moral character?" and this site has links to several people's points of view.

Body Image (as we discussed in class): While pop culture seems to worship the hourglass figure for females, with a tiny waist, big boobs and curvy hips à la Marilyn Monroe , this may not be optimal, says Elizabeth Cashdan of the University of Utah. That's because the hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute fat from the hips to the waist.

YouTube videos for "Barack Obama and John McCain debate." This media impacted culture by influencing people political choices for this election.

The refurbished Paris-Bercy stadium sets a new benchmark in the cultural scenario of Paris, encouraging a close union between layman and urban design. Check it out and leave us your views...

This documentary details the epidemic of fear in our society, ranging from child predators to terrorism. It features interviews with Dr. Noam Chomsky, David Kucinish, and many other experts offering an in-depth exploration on various topics of fear.

Designersblock as a venue of LDF2015 shines bright with cross-cultural influences and design tenets that are at once steadfast and intriguing . Check out the review here...

Dynamism in form inculcates energy in functionality and active flow of human traffic in this new contemporary art museum in LA. Check it out here and leave us your comments…

Date issued: June 26, 2006. This article is basically about a three-day conference that was held in Rio De Janeiro. A rare global alliance of artists, scientists, and lawyers met to discuss working towards creating a "creative commons," which would give artists the privilege of deciding which rights they wished to maintain and which to share. "In its broadest form, the Creative Commons system allows creators and consumers of culture not only to view or listen to a digital work but also to copy, remix or sample it, as long as the originator is properly credit" Gilberto Gil, who is a singer-songwriter as well as Brazil's culture minister and an advocate of overhauling the global copyright, also attended the conference. Gil spoke about his six year battle in court with publishing companies to recover ownership of his work. Which now exceeds more than 400 songs which Gil has all registered with Creative Commons-he has retained the rights of some but had made others available for listeners to interpret, copy and manipulate as they please. The author of this article, Larry Rohter, appears to be mostly reporting. He doesn't blatantly state his opinion on the subject, however the article is one sided, in favor of Creative Commons and all the artists struggling to gain the copy rights of their work. He is for Creative Commons.

The US and much of the world is now a hyperconnected and hypercommunicative culture. In what ways is a significant event like the inauguration either enhanced or diminished by the massive flow of communication surrounding it?

How the inauguration played out online