Class Notes Flashcards
Popular culture is what?
Popular culture is those things that are popular within a society
Is the Devil Baby pop culture?
Devil baby is not pop culture yet, just viral advertising. To become pop culture it needs to be parodied/ recreated under different circumstances (takes on a life of its own)
Is ‘What does the Fox Say’ pop culture?
What does the fox say- a parody of popular culture. Just because it doesn’t cut across ages, doesn’t mean its not pop culture. Part of pop culture is it hangs around for a bit
Is media driving culture or is culture driving media?
Is media driving culture or is culture driving media?
a. A little of both
Communication basics: include what?
a. How does the process work?
Message (sender) -> encode process (transmitter) -> channel/noise -> decode process (receiver) ->message minus loss (reception) -> feedback -> message again
a. Have message in head, need to decide how to communicate it. Pick a communication vehicle. The distance between you and me is the channel, you are the receiver. Your ear does lots of fancy things to hear the message and brain decodes the message. Through the channel there is noise which can reduce the message (can be audible or not – ex. you are thinking about how hot it is instead of listening). The process has to work in reverse too from feedback
Renaissance of pop culture - what does it mean?
everything old is new (ex. Wayne’s Word – Bohemian Rhapsody – people are interested in Queen again)
What is a celebrity?
a. People who have what?
b. You know you’re pop culture when you become a what?
c. Has to do with newsworthiness and if what?
d. Do we make celebrities?
e. Does the media make a celebrity? If no one was there to consume it, what would happen?
f. Does being a celebrity make you pop culture?
What is a celebrity:
a. People who have power and influence
b. You know you’re pop culture when you become a verb
c. Has to do with newsworthiness an dif they sought it
d. We make celebrities – we assign “stardom” and “celebrity”
e. Does the media make a celebrity? If no one was there to consume it, what would happen?
f. Being a celebrity doesn’t make you pop culture
Up until the 1970s, how did you know you were doing well in broadcast news?
Up until the 1970s, broadcast news didn’t make any money. If you lost money and people still consumed you, you were doing well In the 7s new format came out – 60 minutes.
a. CBS turned a profit. Good thing (first time news made money) and bad thing)news would never be the same again)
How you consume news depends on what?
How you consume news depends on your own experience (ex. if you’ve never lived through a tornado, how you perceive it will be different from someone who has)
“You can’t look at the sun too long” stands for what?
“You can’t look at the sun too long” – many interpretations of just one sentence, can only tell so much when taken out of context, depending on our experiences, we have a bias that skews how we perceive something
Howard Stern - famous for what?
a. At height on how many stations?
b. What did he rescind?
Howard Stern – knew where to push the line, but never crossed it (he didn’t technically do anything wrong)
a. At his height was on 96 stations
b. Rescinded the Fairness doctrine (if someone said something controversial on your show, someone with opposite position had to be given equal talking time to argue their point – Regan shut this down – allowed talk radio to take off because people could finally say what they wanted)
Opi and Anthony - who are they?
Opi and Anthony – shock jock guys – pushed the limit too far (ex. had a strangest place you could have sex segment with one couple doing it in St. Patrick’s cathedral)
Lenny Bruce - why is he important?
a. What made him stand out?
b. Was he pop culture?
Lenny Bruce – did a lot to break down social barriers in the late 50s/early 60s paving the way for comedians like Howard Stern
a. Turned political correctness on its head – used bad words to the point where they become meaningless (like the N word)
b. Not quite pop culture because he was a trouble maker – the deviant sub culture
George Carlin - what did he usually talk about?
a. What was his famous skit?
George Carlin - Regularly went after religion and politics in his comedy sketches
a. Did the 7 words you can’t say on television skit (made it up and then TV industry adapted it – before then supreme court hadn’t even clearly defined obscenity (it was what a prudent person would find offensive but prudence depends on the morals at the time)
What is the latest news with Pandora?
Pandora has been targeting political ads based on what kind of music you listen to
