...207749 THE ROLES OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT ——————————————————— Patience Madigan TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………….. 4 THE ROLES OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT 1.1 OVERVIEW ……………………………………………………………… 4 1.2 OBJECTIVE ……………………………………………………………… 4 2. DISCUSSION …………………………………………………………………… 5 2.1 TECHNOLOGICAL FORCES ON ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY … 5 2.1.1 1950’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.2 1960’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.3 1970’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.4 1980’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.5 1990’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.6 2000’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.2 CULTURAL FORCES ON ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY …………. 5 2.2.1 1950’s Mass Culture ……………………………………………….. 6 2.2.2 1960’s Counter Culture …………………………………………….. 6 2.2.3 1970’s Punk Culture ………………………………………………... 6 2.2.4 1980’s Heavy Metal and Rap Culture ……………………………… 6 2.2.5 1990’s Grunge and Rave Culture ………………………………...… 6...
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...today and Society in the 1950’s In the past sixty years are country has seen overwhelming change. Some change has been for the best, while much has been for the worse. We’ve seen amazing advancements in technology and made huge strides in the health field. Unfortunately we’ve also lost a lot of common sense and have a lack of morals and dignity. In the 1950’s family’s usually stayed together. Today a very big percentage of marriages end in divorce. In the fifties families ate dinner around the table together. Today people have such busy, hectic schedules that family meals are rare and often eaten in front of the TV. In the fifties jobs were easy to come by. Factories were everywhere and paid well enough to comfortably support a middle class family. Today good paying jobs are hard to find and most require a big, expensive degree and even then it’s not guarantee a job. In the 1950’s most mothers were able to and chose to stay home and raise their children. Today most mothers either do not want to or cannot afford to stay home, resulting in children spending most of their childhood in daycare while their mothers work. In the 1950’s children usually played outside, and it was safe enough for them to wander all over the neighborhood. Today kids spend most of their time watching TV and playing video games and can’t just roam around with their friends outside anymore. In the 1950s people often left their doors unlocked. Today that’s unthinkable. In the 1950s people felt more involved...
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...There are many technological similarities and differences between the 1950’s and the 2000’s. The technology from the 1950’s is considered primitive compared to the technology today, which is almost considered unreal with all of the tech gadgets we have today. In the 1950’s, the technology was very basic. Televisions were very small and many were in black and white. You normally couldn’t get but a few channels. Prior to the 50s only a select amount of places had television available. By the end of the 50s almost the entire western hemisphere had a TV in their homes. Which brought families together and allowed them to enjoy their free time. It also was a sign that the world is starting to become more modern on technology. In the 2000’s, the technology is very much more advanced than that of the 50’s. The televisions now are way different. With...
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...THE BROADWAY CAFE BRINGING IT TO THE 21ST CENTURY 1 THE BROADWAY CAFE BRINGING IT TO THE 21ST CENTURY 2 Abstract I just recently inherited my grandfather's coffee shop called the Broadway Café. In this paper we are going to examine how to bring it up to the 21st century. To get a better understanding of how to bring the coffee shop into the 21st-century; we are going to talk about the history of coffee and how it got started, and what life must have been like in the 1950’s. We are also going to talk about running today's coffee shops with today's technology. Wi-Fi allows us to access the Internet, check our bank accounts, and read electronic books & magazines. Another piece of technology we're going to talk about is a Point of Sale or POS unit, which is an electronic cash register. THE BROADWAY CAFE BRINGING IT TO THE 21ST CENTURY 3 History Coffee supposedly started in Constantinople, Turkey. According to the International Coffee Organization: “The global spread of coffee growing and drinking began in the Horn of Africa, where, according to legend, coffee trees originated in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa. It is recorded that the fruit of the plant, known as coffee cherries, was eaten by slaves taken from present day Sudan into Yemen and Arabia through the great port of its day, Mocha. Coffee was certainly being cultivated in Yemen by the 15th century and probably much earlier. In an attempt to prevent its cultivation elsewhere, the Arabs imposed...
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...The topic I have chosen for my final project is media and children 1950’s to 21st century. I have chosen media and children because these people have too much power over young children today. Young girls and boys are expected to fit a certain stereotype and if cannot are cast out of society. Media has the power to manipulate the way children see themselves, dress, talk, and even how they decide to live their lives. The aspect of my topic that I plan to focus on in my writing and research is broadcasting media’s impact, parents concern with broadcasting media, and different type of content in television shows and cartoons then and now. For example, a child from the 1950’s did not watch much television; children were never exposed to adult content such as sex, language, alcohol, drugs and violence. While a child who is growing up now in the 21st have internet, newest technology and gadgets, and is more exposed to sex, drugs, alcohol, and violence. What I have to learn from this research project is that maybe change is not such a bad thing. Things are changing and not all of them are for the worst. Another thing I have to learn is that things were different in the 1950’s because things were perceived a different way than they are now. The purpose of my research and writing project is to better understand the beauty as well as the ugly about each different era. The process I will follow in this research and writing project is to choose my area of focus, seek instructor guidance, conduct...
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...views violence in television and media as the reason behind high aggression in children and that the two are directly linked (p. 124.) Violence in television has become more graphic and has had lawmakers and citizens concerned as early as the 1950’s. In 1952 the House of Representatives held a meeting to regarding violence in media and stated, “Television broadcast industry was a perpetrator and deliverer of violence,” (Parents Television Council, 2011.) According to the New York Times, the US Surgeon General Jesse Steinfield said, “it is clear to me that the casual relationship between televised violence and anti-social behavior is sufficient to warrant appropriate and immediate action,” (1999.) The history of violence in media shows how the regulations have changed from the early days of television and media to present day cable, Internet and other forms of media. Overtime, society has come to accept such violence in television, media and games. The issue is how much violence children and teenagers are exposed to. (1950’s) The Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) prohibited obscene and indecent material, which was defined by what the majority of society viewed as offensive. For example, television sitcoms in the 1950’s...
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...back. Without meaning to, Edison opened the door to the future of the music industry, making it possible for musicians to record and distributes their original work. 50 years later vinyl records would come into play, and by the 1950’s they were your main source to listen to music. Vinyl Records were most popular from the early 1950s’ to the 1980’s until Sony developed the first digital audio recording devices to be used by professional studios. The following year, Sony invented the portable Walkman cassette player, selling over 100 million in the first year. In 1988 Sony came out with the compact disc that would be the first use the new available digital format MP3, software that compresses and decompresses audio files.( "Digital vs. Analog Audio: Which Sounds Better?") This would set off the digital audio player revolution that achieved tremendous success when Apple’s iPod was released in 2001. The advancement of digital music has made it easier to obtain music as well as restore and preserve vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CD’s making MP3 audio files superior. Without technology always evolving we would not have the luxury of being able to carry about our entire music collection in the palm of our hands. Since the rise of the internet in the 1990’s, downloading Mp3 files has become the superior way to...
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...All you need these days is an internet connection, and world of possibilities opens up for us to use and connect with. If a parent is in another country on a business call, all you need to do is load up Skype and they can read their kids a bedtime story. Xbox live allows active gamers to play their favorite video games with their friends and families. Facebook and other social media sites allow us to talk to one another on a constant, daily basis. Apps can either provide a small child some entertainment on a road trip or can be used to play two player air hockey without having to pay the money. Technology is constantly evolving to our needs and our demand to remain social and alert. Video streaming, such as Netflix, allows us to stream videos to our whole family and families...
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...“Brain Change” In “ Mind over Mass Media” by Steven Pinker he writes how technology is not making us stupid, but is actually making us smarter: “ The Internet and information technologies are helping is manage, search and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scales, from Twitter and previews to e- books and online encyclopedias. Far from making us stupid these technologies are the only thing keeping us smart.”(Pinker). The constant updates that these devices are giving us are yes, more convenient but not making us stupid. Pinker believes that the technology is very much distracting, but not if the users have some self control. Pinker said “ Distraction is not a new phenomenon. The solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of self-control, as we do with every other temptation in life. Turn off email or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated hour.” He argues that although these devices can distract us and interfere sometimes, they can easily be shut off to allow full focus. It is the users of these devices who are at fault, not technologies. In the essay, Pinker is very much disagreeing with Carr. While Carr takes the other side and argues that technology is altering the way we think in a negative way causing us to skim through things and expect the obvious answers, Pinker believes that using technologies like PowerPoint and search engines are causing us to be...
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...Most Significant Events Casey Turner HIS/135 11/20/2011 I am writing this paper to reveal and describe different events that have occured over the past 50 years that have had a direct impact on the United States and affected the way we all live today. There are many economical, social, and political events that have helped shaped not only our country, but many other nations around the world as well. This paper is an attempt to reveal and speculate on some of these important events. 1950’s A growing amount of American people began to speak out about inequality and injustice during the 1950’s and the Rosa Parks bus incident is a perfect example. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year old African American woman who worked as a seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus to go home from work. On that bus that day, Rosa Parks started a new era in the American quest for equal rights (Rosa Parks Bus, 2002). Parks sat toward the middle of the bus, right behind the 10 seats that were reserved for white people. The bus ended up getting completely filled up and when a white man that entered the bus did not have a seat, the driver tried to make the four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the white man could sit down. Mrs. Park’s who was already a NAACP activist, quietly refused to do so. For disobeying the bus driver’s orders and not giving up her seat to the white man, she was arrested and convicted of violating segregation...
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...Intro to Networking Concepts-Chapter 1 Network protocols – first built in 1950’s for a way to effectively communicate with other computers and protocols are set. These computers can communicate through binary numbers with 0’s and 1’s. Numerous protocols are placed and it eventually evolved into a different term for the online use, this is called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocols/Internet Protocol). TP/IP networks are hierarchical fashion that allows for great flexibility and scalability; by subdividing the networks into smaller groups called subnets. TCP/IP networking are fundamentals of IP network addressing and the distinction between IPv4 and IPv6. Also basic concepts protocols are DHCP, DNS and routing the process of transferring data across a networking from one LAN to another. TCP/IP networks was first introduced in the 1960’s, these were called IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) was first introduced and is most commonly used in modern networks. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the latest version of the internet protocols and will be prevalence as the number of shortcoming to the IPv4. IPv4 uses 32 bits (four bytes or octets) thus giving a mathematical limit of 2³² possible addresses. As for IPv6 which was developed in the 1990’s that would threaten and even to exhaust the 4-billion-plus IP addresses available through IPv4. At the end, IP6 is the next generation of the TCP/IP protocol. DNS (Domain Name System) provides the mechanism for connecting...
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...games Internet services, and other cultural products to large number of people (campbell, p. 6, 2012). Over the last century there have been some major developments in the evolution of mass media. In the early 1900’s there was only newspapers and magazines there was no competition for the media market. With today’s technology we can now communicate with each other weather it is here on Earth or in Space. According to “Evolution of Mass Media" (2009-2010), “At the beginning of the century, the media consisted mainly of newspapers and various periodicals. Newspapers and magazines dominated the media in the second decade of the 20th century. In 1900, there was no radio, television or internet; newspapers dominated the media market, with virtually no competition. Today, using available technology, such as the internet, we can communicate with one another anywhere on Earth, or Space, instantly” (The 1900's). In the 40’s radio was introduced and became the dominate form of media. In the 50’s television came into play and dominated the media industry in 1950. Radio and print now had competition with television which provided the sound and picture all together. According to “Evolution of Mass Media" (2009-2010), “In 1962, with the communications satellite Telstar I in space, followed by other satellites, news reports from around the world could be transmitted directly, giving television unprecedented power to communicate major world events in real-time” (The 1900's). As...
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...Quality Management In chapter one W. Edward Deming is the total quality pioneer that defined quality in his present day, which was over 50 years ago, however, his defining elements are basically the quality foundation that is practiced in today’s environment for quality with most major industry leading companies. Deming’s vision and philosophy along with the fundamental elements of quality that he defined made him a successful quality pioneer in the 1950’s. According to Deming he defined quality and its elements through common extractions taken from his quality pioneer book “Out of the Crisis.” Quality and its elements are defined as “A dynamic state associated with products, service, people, processes and environments that meet or exceeds expectations and helps produce superior value.” Deming believed that quality has many different criteria and that the criteria change continually, along with consumers valuing the various criteria differently, which creates the important opportunity to measure and re-measure the preferences of the consumers’ frequently. Deming understands the need to re-define the various and different consumers’ preferences and the need to re-measure them frequently was a unique perspective for his time. This unique perspective made him a quality pioneer and it is also one of the corner stones of the foundations that today’s quality is built upon and used in today’s quality definition. In today’s environment of fierce...
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...In the late 1940's, John Von Neumann, developer of the stored program concept, authored a treatise, "Theory and Organization of Complicate Automata", in which he described the theory of what came to be called, the computer virus. He proposed the theory that software can multiply like a biological virus. Several scientists pursued this theory in a few journals, even though most everyone else dismissed the idea. About 10 years later, this radical theory, was brought to life at the highly respected Bell Labs. One of the programmers responsible for this amazing feat was Robert Morris, Sr., the father of the infamous, Robert Morris, Jr., who created the worst infection in the history of the Internet. These programmers, realizing that both programs and data are stored in the same computer memory, proved that programs could be created and destroyed just like data. They created a computer game, in which the programs replicated themselves and destroyed the opposing programs. Because computer memory at that time was referred to as core, this game was later called Core Wars in a Scientific American article. Although news of this experiment soon spread to researchers at MIT and Xerox, apparently the programmers were able to keep this information from most of the computer community for several years. They were well aware of the disastrous effects this concept could have on a network. As an experiment, Xerox demonstrated how rapidly it could spread through a network, and shut down...
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...Lydia Barks UC 175-000 Professor Fulkerson 20 November 2010 Annotated Bibliography Topic and Brief Description How has the concept of “good” parenting changed from 1950-2008? A good parent wants what is best for his or her child no matter what. In the early years, parents taught their children the basics: how to do things, discipline, communication, right from wrong, etc. Through the years these basics are still being taught. One change is that parents are dealing with more epidemics in their children these days. Parents have to learn how to handle and work with the children with special needs. Another change is that back then you saw more mothers doing the parenting but in some cases these days the father steps in and plays the role of the mother. A main concept that has been altered is discipline. In today’s society, some people see spanking as a sign of abuse and think that talking to them and explaining what they did wrong is a better technique. However, this is true at times but if it was the 1950’s, taking a child out back and giving them a good spanking was just what they needed. That is how the concepts of good parenting have changed over the years. Annotated Bibliography Sources One Book Source: Evans, J, & Llfeld, E. (1982). Parenting in the early years: good beginnings. Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. This book talks about parenting in the early years and gives information on the development of an infant’s lifestyle and...
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