Current worries about a supposedly increasing popularization of political campaign methods and styles are rooted in the historical oppositions between popular culture and modernism. The folkloric world of popular culture, ...

A social history of a popularization process of major importance for a national press structure forms the basis of this article. Today's largest circulation newspaper in Norway is the case in point. Vardens Gang (now known ...

This article, based on ethnographic research on a small island off the coast of South West Ireland, studies the role of the telephone in changing the social relationships on the island. It compares the impact of the telephone ...