CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-1: Online Chat, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Erving Goffman
13 Mar 2017
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Such tactics of asserting authenticity by saying that the new authentically represents the old are used in selling a wide range of products. It is not just individuals, firms, or industries that work to establish their authenticity. In this era of global homogenizing, the distinctive social and cultural characteristics of places are obscured, and tourism promoters engage in concerted efforts to recreate something that is taken to be traditional" especially for the sake of tourists. In a similar vein anderson (1983) shows how the idealized ideas of democratization in the west were accepted by 19th and 20th century non-western nation-builders as the model for creating democracy. The debate over authenticity or contrivance of teen-oriented rock bands has raged ever since the beatles became famous for singing their own songs. The challenge to authenticity was forgrounded by the explicitly constructed group the.
