Table of Contents

Part 1 National cultural narratives in the age of global technology: the politics of identity and the culture of global technology, Michael Brint; cultural transmissions - electronic orality and ergonomics of the mind, Timothy Baker Shutt; the aesthetics of the machine, Frank Phillip Coyle; the political economy of global culture - a case study of the film industry, Aida Hozic. Part 2 The politics of national cultural identity - case studies: Russian culturalist arguments against the relevance of democracy for Russia, Dominique Colas; the question of multiculturalism in France, Joelle Zask; the anti-Americanism in France during the war in Kosovo, Reneo Lukic.