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  1. 300 Cultural Icons: Great Artists & Thinkers on Video - Open Culture

  2. WEBDec 6, 2023 · Learn about the history and meaning of icons, religious images that played a central role in Byzantine culture and Orthodox Christianity. Explore different types, styles, and functions of icons, and …

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    The value of redefining the cultural icon is to more accurately describe its current role in networked digital culture and to establish a com-mon vocabulary to describe it as a distinct cultural phenomenon in twenty-first cen-tury North American popular culture.
    Cultural icons can also be identified as an authentic representation of the practices of one culture by another. In popular culture and elsewhere, the term "iconic" is used to describe a wide range of people, places, and things. Some commentators believe that the word "iconic" is overused.
    These popular cultural icons share characteristics in common with all icons: the ability to function as repositories of collective cultural values, a ubiquitous presence in popular culture, and roots in specific socio-historical contexts that contribute to their iconicity.
    Background The role of cultural icons in twenty-first century North American popular culture has been under-theorized in communication scholarship. This is a significant gap in knowledge, given the importance of the icon as a public text through which collective cultural values are symbolized.
  4. Rethinking the Cultural Icon: Its Use and Function in Popular …

  5. A Deeper Look at Global Icons - University of California, San Diego

  6. Cultural icon - The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

  7. WEB28 January 2019. Alfred Hitchcock, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Virginia Woolf. These 20th century cultural giants feature in the Artists and Writers category of BBC Two's Icons. Who was the...