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  1. What are Cultural Icons?
    A cultural icon is an image, symbol, person, or idea that represents a group, place, or time
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  2. 300 Cultural Icons: Great Artists & Thinkers on Video

  3. Cultural icon - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  4. Smarthistory – Icons, an introduction

  5. Introduction: The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons

  6. Rethinking the Cultural Icon: Its Use and Function in Popular …

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    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.
    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.
    They continue, ‘The icon has proven to be a powerful and resilient cultural structure, and a container for sacred meanings, long after Friedrich Nietzsche announced the death of god’. Despite the central place iconic representations take in contemporary culture, consensus on what the term ‘icon’ means is abundantly lacking.
    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.
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  9. A Deeper Look at Global Icons - University of California, San Diego

  10. The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons