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Rethinking Cultural Criticism

New Voices in the Digital Age

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores cultural criticism across a range of cultural domains in an increasingly digital world

  • Points to a variety of theoretical and methodological tools of importance to the study of digital cultural criticism

  • Provides a comparative contribution by presenting studies of global as well as national cases

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: Rethinking Cultural Criticism—New Voices in the Digital Age

    • Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Unni From, Helle Kannik Haastrup
    Pages 1-15
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 261-264

About this book

This edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age. It provides new insights into how critical authority and expertise in a cultural context are being reconfigured in digital media and by means of digital media, as the boundaries of cultural criticism and who may perform as a cultural critic are redefined or even dissolved. The book applies cross-media and cross-disciplinary perspectives to advance cultural criticism as a wide-ranging and multi-facetted object of study in the 21st century. Presenting a broad collection of case studies, including global cases such as the Golden Globe, the Intellectual Dark Web, YouTube, Rotten Tomatoes and Artsy and particular national contexts such as Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands, the book showcases the many theoretical and methodological approaches that may serve as useful frameworks for studying new critical voices in the digital age. It will be of interest to media, communication and journalism scholars as well as scholars from a range of aesthetic disciplines.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Helle Kannik Haastrup

  • Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Unni From

About the editors

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, PhD, is Professor of Media Studies at Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, where she serves as Head of Section of Media Studies. She specializes in research about media and popular culture, cultural journalism and cultural criticism across platforms and political communication.

Unni From, PhD, is Associate Professor of Media and Journalism at School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, where she serves as researcher and Deputy Head of the School. She specializes in research about cultural and lifestyle journalism and cultural criticism across media, and applies both quantitative and qualitative methods. 

Helle Kannik Haastrup, PhD, is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. She specializes in research about film and television aesthetics and popular digital media culture, celebrity culture, intertextual storytelling and cross-media analysis.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Cultural Criticism

  • Book Subtitle: New Voices in the Digital Age

  • Editors: Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Unni From, Helle Kannik Haastrup

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7474-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7473-3Published: 01 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7476-4Published: 02 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7474-0Published: 30 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Democracy, Digital/New Media, Culture and Technology

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eBook USD 89.00
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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Hardcover Book USD 119.99
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