Pop culture freaks chap 1 definitions

Question 1

What is Popular culture?

Answer 1

The people, a culture heavily associated with low income and working class people- also called folk culture

Question 2

What is High culture?

Answer 2

A private elitie that is chatecterized by classical music, paintings an iterature

Question 3

What is folk culture?

Answer 3

Local music, morality, ;ocal platy

Question 4

What is culture?

Answer 4

Sacred elements of society such as religious artifacts or high culture art

Question 5

What is cuture industry?

Answer 5

Capatalisms mechanism for comodifying art and it;s commodifying of production and distrivbitin of meaning

Question 6

What is a commercial culture?

Answer 6

A culture that is heavily driven by middle class identification

Question 7

What does reception refer to?

Answer 7

The way the audience recieves a cultural good

Question 8

What is consumption?

Answer 8

How we access a cultural good?

Question 9

What does interpetation mean?

Answer 9

How we make meaning of the cultural goods we recieve and how we act on those meanings

Question 10

What is the cultural diamond?

Answer 10

A visual representaion of the relationshiop between the producer and the audience.

Question 11

What ar the main elements that comprime the cultural diamond?

Answer 11

Social World, cultural object, creator and reciever

Question 12

What is reflection theory?

Answer 12

Looks and analyzes how literature and other cultursl obkjects reflect the culture of the social world

Question 13

What is important to note about the popular culture industry?

Answer 13

It is controlled by a few number of coirporations

Question 14

What spoecific corporations controll about 90% (a majority) of mass media?

Answer 14

Time warner, walt disney, comcast, news corp, Ntional museums

Question 15

What is an oligopoly?

Answer 15

An industry that is controlled by a small handfull of corporations that are functinally no longer competing with each other

Question 16

What is vertical integration?

Answer 16

A cosyt saving business practice that involves controlliung every aspect of creationg and distribution

Question 17

What is an example of vertical integration?

Answer 17

A music business may seek to own not only production company but music studio nbut musci studio and publishing bsiness

Question 18

What is horizontal intergration

Answer 18

Seeking to own higher propportions of market production in a field. owning as many

Question 19

/What is interlock

Answer 19

the situation when a major memeber of a mass mesidia company is on the board of another media organization/ corporation

Question 20

What is the FCC?

Answer 20

An independent federal agency created by the communications act of 1934; charged with regulating the use of wire and radio communication.

Question 21

When was the internet added to the fcc’s charge?

Answer 21

In 1996 with the telecommunications act of 1996

Question 22

What arr the two main matracies analyzed in this book ?

Answer 22

The matrix of identity, and the matrix of mass media

Question 23

What is Intersectionality?

Answer 23

Bringing ogether race, class, and gender and how differnt identities are either opprrssesd or priveleged in our society based on the contexts of our society