Book – J. Ponzo, S. Stano (eds.), I media e le icone culturali (Saggi di Lexia, 2024)

J. Ponzo, S. Stano (eds.), I media e le icone culturali, Rome, Aracne, 2024 (Saggi di Lexia #53).

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The volume aims to take stock of the reflection on cultural icons, renewing it thanks to an interdisciplinary dialogue. The essays collected here contribute, on the one hand, to a critical examination of what cultural icons are, proposing theoretical reflections on fundamental concepts, such as those of icon and culture, which have a rich and complex history and which never cease to be rethought and reformulated, for example in semiotics. On the other hand, we find in the proposed studies a strong applicative vocation, which manifests itself in analyses of specific cases capable of providing a new perspective for the understanding of social and cultural phenomena of great importance in the world – or, better, in the semiosphere — in which we live and of the role that communication processes and, more specifically, the evolution of the media and their discourses play in relation to these phenomena.