Pop culture freaks chap 1 definitions Flashcards
What is Popular culture?
The people, a culture heavily associated with low income and working class people- also called folk culture
What is High culture?
A private elitie that is chatecterized by classical music, paintings an iterature
What is folk culture?
Local music, morality, ;ocal platy
What is culture?
Sacred elements of society such as religious artifacts or high culture art
What is cuture industry?
Capatalisms mechanism for comodifying art and it;s commodifying of production and distrivbitin of meaning
What is a commercial culture?
A culture that is heavily driven by middle class identification
What does reception refer to?
The way the audience recieves a cultural good
What is consumption?
How we access a cultural good?
What does interpetation mean?
How we make meaning of the cultural goods we recieve and how we act on those meanings
What is the cultural diamond?
A visual representaion of the relationshiop between the producer and the audience.
What ar the main elements that comprime the cultural diamond?
Social World, cultural object, creator and reciever
What is reflection theory?
Looks and analyzes how literature and other cultursl obkjects reflect the culture of the social world
What is important to note about the popular culture industry?
It is controlled by a few number of coirporations
What spoecific corporations controll about 90% (a majority) of mass media?
Time warner, walt disney, comcast, news corp, Ntional museums
What is an oligopoly?
An industry that is controlled by a small handfull of corporations that are functinally no longer competing with each other
What is vertical integration?
A cosyt saving business practice that involves controlliung every aspect of creationg and distribution
What is an example of vertical integration?
A music business may seek to own not only production company but music studio nbut musci studio and publishing bsiness
What is horizontal intergration
Seeking to own higher propportions of market production in a field. owning as many
/What is interlock
the situation when a major memeber of a mass mesidia company is on the board of another media organization/ corporation
What is the FCC?
An independent federal agency created by the communications act of 1934; charged with regulating the use of wire and radio communication.
When was the internet added to the fcc’s charge?
In 1996 with the telecommunications act of 1996
What arr the two main matracies analyzed in this book ?
The matrix of identity, and the matrix of mass media
What is Intersectionality?
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
