Describe a contemporary cultural phenomenon.?

Answer 1

Given the growing importance of digital technologies in contemporary culture, the humanities should be well positioned to offer perspectives on cultural communication. As reading and writing are in continual flux under the conditions of new technologies, media literacy becomes closely related to questions of core competency in the humanities. While reading on-line, navigating multimedia environments, and mobile telecommunications present departures from traditional notions of literacy, they still require collective and individual abilities of critical and evaluative comprehension or appreciation. Whether seen as a radical departure, or merely an extension or inflection of older media practices, new media (Web TV, electronic book, interactive cinema) confront us with emergent forms of expression that demand our attention, whether they build upon or break with history. The historical and legal implications of new digital technologies must also be reconsidered, where, for example, the unique publicity rights of celebrities founder on their pop montage fame; software, game culture, and interactive networks complicate the recognition of creativity and authorship demanded by law. The fast pace of technical innovation, as well as the rapid development of academic disciplines relating to individual media or to discourses on media, pose a challenge to the humanities. This conference seeks to articulate the relation between media history, digital culture, and the humanities.

Answer 2

Particularly techno music that has brought the rave movement be a major one of modern times (last ten years solid in popularity).

Answer 3

Political correctness

Answer 4

hip hop

Answer 5

the internet