Daniel Miller

From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Meer

This book offers a fascinating investigation of the current expansion of Christmas at a time of decline in other festivals. It is the first comparative study of the Christmas phenomenon and includes discussion of Christmas and materialism, Christmas and the family, and Christmas in a variety of cultural contexts, including the USA, Japan, Britain, Sweden, and Trinidad. Meer

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This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the social, political and cultural contexts which account for the contemporary Internet experience. Meer