About CultCase
Posted by CultCase at Monday, January 01, 2007
Culture is an illusive concept. The term "Culture" refers to "patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance" (Wikipedia). Deriving from the Latin word Cultura, culture is usually manifested to any of the seven arts: Music, Dance, Painting, Literature, Architecture, Sculpture, and Cinema.
Yet, the term Culture may also be attributed to a much wider scope of social phenomena including different kinds of sport, political actions and various ways of media communications. The work of the journalist, for example, or the creative thinking that empowers a successful advertising or counter-advertising campaign can also be attributed to the concept of culture.
Following this trail, CultCase is an online magazine dedicated culture and arts. Each case covers a different aspect of human spirit, from painting and film-making, poetry and music to advertising and architecture, popular science and cyberspace – if it's culty and trendy, CultCase is here to break it up for you.
CultCase in Pictures
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CultCase began as a personal blog in 2005 and evolved to become a collective eZine focused in arts and popular culture in the end of 2007. Since February 2008, CultCase had attracted approximately 600,000 unique readers. More than 60,000 pages are viewed during an average month on CultCase. Our articles show up on the front pages of the world's most popular social news sites such as StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, Propeller and Fark.
CultCase had also been linked and referred to from mega-popular and culty websites such as Make magazine, Neatorama, Dark Roasted Blend, MentalFloss, WebUrbanist, AttuWorld, CoasttoCoastAM, kottke.org, About.com, 10e.org and many more. CultCase is ranked within Technorati's top 50K blogs list and with a Google PageRank 5 tops on Google organic results for many of it's keywords.
For a list of CultCase follow-ups or blog reactions as they call them on Technorati see here.
The above Flash map, courtesy of whos.amung.us, is a dynamic representation of new arrivals to CultCase as well as current and recent readers.
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