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<p>Welcome to the Student Resources section of the Companion Website for Reading Culture, Sixth Edition, by Diana George and John Trimbur. The Student Resources section is intended to be a supplemental resource to the textbook: a springboard to other resources on the Web and a rich Web-based environment in and of itself. In this way, the online section is an extension and not a replication of the textbook.</p>
<p>Like Reading Culture, the Student Resources section assumes a strong interest in everyday life. That is, like the book, it asks you, the student, to think through how people make sense of their worlds, to question cultural values and beliefs, and to examine the practices and rituals in which people invest their time and energies. Like the book, this section is predicated on defining culture as "not only ... the literary and artistic works which critics have called masterpieces but also the way of life that characterizes a particular group of people at a particular time." The Preface to Reading Culture indicates that culture "includes all the social institutions, patterns of behavior, systems of belief, and kinds of popular entertainment that create the social world in which people live." The Student Resources section assumes that you are already an expert on culture. Thus, it asks you, reading as an expert, to locate and analyze cultural objects and patterns in the mass-mediated, multicultural place that is contemporary America. </p>
<p>The Student Resources section is organized by chapter; each chapter has five or six components. First, you will find a short summary explicating the focus of the chapter and outlining some of the major themes that it will explore.</p>
<p>Second, you will find the Web Exercises component which continues with the themes of each chapter and asks you to engage in various activities which allow you to continue the explorations that began in the textbook. </p>
<p>New to the sixth edition of Reading Culture are the Wired Culture exercises, which stem from the Wired Culture section of each chapter in the text. These are designed to help you see the variety of ways that you interact with the Web and the variety of positions you hold: as a consumer, as a researcher, as a surfer, as an activist, and as a friend. </p>
<p>The Film Clip component uses Web links and resources to expand on the Film Clip sections of each chapter and asks you to critically think about the relationship between film and our culture.</p>
<p> Finally, you will find the Visual Culture Online and Mining the Web components. The Visual Culture Online section provides links that either emphasize the visual nature of the themes of each chapter and of contemporary American culture or are included to encourage you to work with multimedia and print archives. The Mining the Web section is largely bibliographical and intended for your further exploration. </p>
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