...Within the past few decades, content that is portrayed and displayed in popular media has changed drastically. Values such as being family centered, a lack of profanity, modesty and community involvement are being substituted for sexual or violent immoralities. Even though the responsibility falls on the parent to monitor their teenagers or children’s media access. Television producers also share some responsibility along with parents to be more vigilant with the content being displayed and portrayed in poplar media. Such as limiting the amount violence and sexual content that is being displayed on shows and cartoons catered to younger viewing audience. To begin, the material being displayed on shown popular television shows and cartoons dedicated for the younger viewing audiences, from ages 2-17 have “twice as many violent incidents in children’s programming than in other types of programming” (common sense media). Television shows and cartoons have characters that portray a certain image that look innocent to the naked eye. However, once close...
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...interaction of different cultures. The mass media has aided the process of globalisation through allowing its users access to a range of information, not so much restricted to just one society’s preferences, delivered via the internet, satellite television, advertising and other forms of entertainment (e.g. music icons). Curran and Seaton highlight the debate between optimistic globalisers/neophiliacs and cultural pessimists as to what effect this all has on popular culture; while optimistic globalisers see globalisation and the wide use of new media as a positive thing (creating a global popular culture in which once distinct cultural products and customs are becoming more alike), cultural pessimists see this as an illusion due to the ownership of the new media still being concentrated and belonging to large, powerful corporations, hence its content has led to a decline in the quality of popular culture. Neophiliacs see the convergence, compression and interactivity involved in the new media as allowing for an increase in consumer choice. For example; we can watch the same events on different TV channels to get a range of perspectives on them. They see elements of high culture as being integrated into popular culture to be produced for mass audiences, thereby further increasing consumer choice. Neophiliacs see the quality of media presented to the public as increasing with competition between media institutions, as well as a variety of media delivery systems being available. Best...
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...Values Portrayed in Popular Media Stacey Gilley ENG.122 Professor Bernadette Anayah September 3, 2012 Values Portrayed in Popular Media In today’s society popular media plays a big role and affects how some people conduct themselves. Dictionary.com describes popular media as, “the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines that reach or influence people widely.” The majority of households spend the majority of their time watching television shows. Our young children look up to the young actors or individuals that they watch on television through TV shows or music videos or even ones they read about in magazines. And there are a lot of women that look up to the women that play some of the parts on screen. The popular media plays a significant part of the problems that a lot of regular households go through. Everyone wants to be like who they watch on television. Is it wrong to allow our children to watch these shows? Are people losing the ability to raise decent, responsible and respectful children today? Are the adult’s that allow this decent and responsible people? This paper will raise issues about popular media today and display the effects of it on our generation. You will see how the popular media that kids are watching today influence them to have low self-esteem, a lack of discipline and consequences, ability to make grown up decisions, have no or little respect for adults and basically raise themselves. You have TV shows...
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...Zombies have become more popular in a bunch of cultural mediums such as movies, books, video games, TV and many more. Zombies are so popular because they allow creators and filmmakers to express a big range of cultural concerns and fears. The cultural fears of any era can be determined by the examination of the most popular media at the time. In recent years, the fear of death can be evaluated by the examination of zombie films since the zombies represent fears of death and dying. The term ‘zombie’ is used to describe animated human bodies that attack in crowds looking for other humans to eat. “The first zombies that appeared in films moved very slowly. However, we have moved towards ‘fast’ zombies that move at a faster pace to surround and...
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...The essay is an in depth analysis of a scholarly article as well as a review of a popular media resource on sexuality. The scholarly article reviewed is titled, "Sexual knowledge, attitudes and activity of men conscripted into the military" authored by Jiankang, Chao et al. published in 2010. The study focused on experience, understanding, knowledge as well as attitudes concerning sexual activities of persons recruited in the military. According to Chao, et al, 2010 the research article's major component is knowledge, attitude, values and skills concerning sexuality. It is apparent that the fight against HIV and AIDS calls for the involved parties to adequately have enough knowledge to tackle it. Thus it is of significance to ensure that people are well equipped with the desired knowledge. The article sought after providing evidence that is needed for development of a better sex education program to be used beyond high school, an examination of sexual knowledge, attitude as well as behaviors of young men recruited in the military. Similarly, the research sought to determine if there were differences in socio-demographic characteristics between men who did, or didn't have sexual experience. The research was done by use of both secondary and primary sources of data. The desired data was collected from a group of military members in southern Taiwan between the periods of January and July 2009. The target sample was aged 18-29 years. To aid in data collection...
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...part the movies are overly clichéd lies. In reality there are only three groups of people and within those groups are many sub-groups. I don’t much though into sub-groups though, since virtually everyone from the same group gets along. First, the mass majority of an average highschool population; the populars (pops). Yes! That’s right, you didn’t read wrong. Contrary to the beliefs of many, populars are not a select few, but majority of the population. The pops are just as you might expect; crude, annoying, vicious, disruptive, think much too highly of themselves, etc… I would continue, but then this letter would never end. Now, something you may not believe is that they actually get better grades than some of the smarter kids in this school. Not because the pops are by any means smart, but because they actually choose to do the dumb-downed, simplistic work teachers handout now-a-days. Though the schoolwork incredibly easy, pops find it to be increasingly challenging. Popular girls will most likely get pregnant early on and be force to drop-out of either highschool, or college. They will most likely end-up as a stay at home mom, or a cashier at some store, or fast food place. Popular guys will either be a drop-out so they can raise money to support their family, or they will ditch the girl and go on to be a sports star or an actor. Surely there will be a few who change their ways and escape this fate, but not many. The second group of people are within the top percentile of the...
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...Assess the view that the mass media are helping to create a single global popular culture (January 2013) Popular culture is a culture ordinary people can relate to and is enjoyed by mass audiences. It is also referred to as low or mass culture and it is a mass produced product and sometimes trivial in its content and has no artistic value. High culture is seen as set apart from everyday life and often highly valued and aimed at mainly upper class and middle class people. The mass media can be argued in creating a single global popular culture due to many different processes. Postmodernists would suggest that the difference between high and popular culture is weakening due to easier international transportations and expansions of media based industries. High and popular culture can be produced and exchanged more easily and the boundaries between them have become blurred. Strinati supports this and says that there is no real distinction between high and popular culture. Giddens also argues that forms of high culture are used to produce products for the mass popular culture market. One way in which the mass media has helped to create a single global popular culture in through convergence. This is a combination of the different ways of presenting a variety of the types of information such as video, text and music into a single delivery system. Compression has also contributed to this which is the way in which digital technologies can send many signals through the same sable...
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...Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British film directed by Peter Brook based on the 1954 novel by William Golding. Both the book and movie of Lord of the Flies represent popular culture in the fact that the book started out being popularized by the working class and would later become a best seller and even move into the category of high culture by becoming required reading in many schools across the world as well as wining the Nobel Prize. The Lord of the Flies and book and movie demonstrate many of the traits that are often reproduced in various form media and often imitated in other works of film, television, and reading. Lord of the Flies was remade into another film in 1990 but the 1963 film is considered to be closer to the book and is the one that is used by this paper. The 1963 Lord of the Flies film is a black and white British film that is presented in the form of a third person narrative in which the audience is a outside party looking in on the cast of the film. The film is about a group of young pre-teen to teenage boys who crash land on an island somewhere is the specific ocean as a result of their plane being shoot down. In the background of the movie there is some type of war but the film never mentioned which war is taking place. With the film being based on a book from the 1950s and the film taking place in the 1960 it can be assumed that the war in question is either World War II or perhaps a future war. In the film the overall theme is that violence and hate...
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...To what extent has popular music culture challenged dominant gender norms? Critically analyse with reference to relevant literature and examples Traditional dominant gender norms state that women are feminine in appearance, including everything from their hair down to their shoes and of course their demeanour, voice and behaviour. The traditional man would be that who is strong and rugged with a deep voice and who is overtly masculine without a hint of make up or traditionally feminine clothing. It has been decades since these norms have begun to alter and be challenged as both sexes began experimenting with gender and identity through the medium of music. By looking at different music genres throughout the ages I will attempt to show how popular music has broken down social barriers and in my opinion has succeeded in challenging gender norms to a point where the perceptions of what is socially acceptable have been altered. Before delving into the world of rock and roll it is noteworthy that the music industry was like any other business, a typically male environment in which women were not expected to survive. The music industry and specifically the Rock genre were sexually focused from the very early stages, as far back as the 40’s and 50’s. Rock music posed a question of morality and was perceived as shocking and dangerous because of its explicit sexual overtones. An example of these first steps in the scene would be Elvis whose gold, tight outfits and pelvic thrusts...
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...Popular Culture Becomes Global Popular culture didn't require satellite television and the Internet to become global. When the first explorers took to the seas or traveled overland routes to distant places, they were influenced by, and returned with, examples of other cultures' popular art, artifacts and customs, such as drinking coffee. If that hadn't caught on, Starbucks would be stuck trying to sell cups of hot, frothy milk for three bucks a pop. The masses were usually not the first to experience exotic forms of popular culture, but they were exposed to them over time. The mixture of popular elements of different cultures was also one of the factors that began to blur the lines between popular and fine arts. While Kabuki Theater was accessible to all classes of Japanese people, Europe's aristocrats initially regarded it as high art. The Age of Industrialization: Relax, Enjoy In the case of popular arts especially (theater, dance, music and more recently movies and television), the masses must have sufficient time and resources to enjoy these arts. Technology is the catalyst that made this possible. Even though many 19th-century industrial laborers worked long hours, they did not generally work the dawn-to-dusk, seven-day-a-week schedules of agrarian toilers—cows need milking even on the Sabbath—and industrial laborers had more money in their pockets. This enabled them to enjoy entertainment venues and engage in hobbies, crafts and recreation outside their work lives....
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...When I think of symbolic artifact of America, “Iphone” comes up in my mind more than anything else. It can be said that “Iphone” is the most innovative, popular and well-distributed invention in the past decade that represents “The Corporate Cool Machine” of America (Culture Jam by Kale Lasn). Indeed, we do spend a lot of time touching and playing with handy phone literally all the time daily basis nowadays. After finding out high functionalities of the simplified touch panel device, most of the people got drawn to the attractions of it and can not stop playing with it. More and more you spend time with the device, you rely on it to take care of many important tasks, such as e-mailing, calling, doing research, making a reservation, accessing social networking systems, playing games, going to places with its navigation systems. Adjusting the setting and inputting important data in this little device every day, it becomes indispensable to your life and sits just in the center of your life now. What differentiates it from other type of American artifacts is that it requires interaction when using the iPhone or smart phones. It always lets us respond to whatever it has to do where older types of American artifacts such as “Berbie” doll or movie or rock music are products, material or non-material, that are given to us to play and enjoy with them, but they don’t take our response right at then. For example, texting requires both way communications. So, do the phone games. or...
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...Culture Today The purpose of this paper in to inform my readers of the following topics: What culture is, and what popular culture is all about. I will also cover the three major trends that make up popular American culture. Lastly we will cover how popular American Culture affects personal decision making. Culture is the value in an individual or civilization that ascends for an anxiety for what is observed as admirable in arts, communication, custom, academic, quests. Culture to me is made up race, religion, age and gender. Simply culture is your background, your history and what makes you, you. Popular Culture is the total of thoughts, viewpoints, boldness, pictures, and former wonders that are inside the characteristic of a specified culture, Western culture and the evolving worldwide majority. Profoundly influenced by social media, this collection of ideas infuses the day to day lives of the civilization. Pop culture is on the rise; the fashion industry has grown and become a huge seller. We want to wear what the models wear but we do not have model figures. I am a plus size women and I love my curves, I was raised to thank God for what we have and to trust God for what we need. There are consequently many movements in the world as we know it today we will only be discussing the following social, religious and political. Social Culture is made of the type individuals are social groups, and environment in which you surround yourself. Being a military family we are intertwined...
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...Popular American Culture Paper Throughout this paper, the reader will get a better understanding of culture and popular culture, along with their definitions and examples of each. The reader will be told three major trends in popular American culture and their roles. Also, the reader will understand how popular American culture affects personal decision making. The reader will gain a better understanding of these three topics after absorbing the paper in its entirety. What is culture? What is popular culture? What is culture? The answer is: "Most social scientists today view culture as consisting primarily of the symbolic, ideational, and intangible aspects of human societies. The essence of a culture is not its artifacts, tools, or other tangible cultural elements but how the members of the group interpret, use, and perceive them. It is the values, symbols, interpretations, and perspectives that distinguish one people from another in modernized societies; it is not material objects and other tangible aspects of human societies. People within a culture usually interpret the meaning of symbols, artifacts, and behaviors in the same or in similar ways." (Banks, 1989) What is popular culture? The answer is: “Popular culture is the accumulated store of cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, dance, film, television, and radio that are consumed primarily by non-elite groups such as the working, lower, and middle class.” (Crossman, 2011) What are three major...
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...Popular American Culture SOC/105 October 31, 2012 S. C. Culture and Pop Culture The official definition of culture is “the customary beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group” (Webster Dictionary.com, 2012) whereas popular culture is the opposite of high cultural art forms like the opera, historic art, classical music, traditional theater or literature. It includes many forms of cultural communication, including newspapers, television, advertising, comics, pop music, radio, novels, movies, etc. In the beginning of the 20th Century," High art" was the realm of the wealthy and educated classes while popular culture or "Low art" is commercial entertainment for the lower classes. In the 1950s and 60s the gap between them closed with the rise of Pop Art” (Kartha, 2011, p.1). Pop culture is so prominent in society that it is almost impossible to escape its influence. This is especially true in America. As a result of easy access, children absorb huge amounts of information presented by the pop culture world, which influences and shapes their identities. However, not all of it is negative and if parents educate themselves and monitor their children’s activities, pop culture is often a positive influence that helps mold the children...
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...INTRODUCTION: Background of the Study: The rising popularity of Korean Culture throughout the world is called Korean Wave. The Korean popular culture which spread mainly through the mass media is now enjoying high popularity outside Korea and this is how the Korean Wave occurs (Yu,2008). The phenomenal Korean sensation is describe from another term called Hallyu, this is a Korean pronunciation of Korean Wave which is defined by Korean Tourism Organization (2004) as the recent cultural phenomenon of South Korean pop culture sweeping throughout the world (Kim & Ryoo, 2007). Korean Wave (Hallyu) mainly consists of television dramas, film, pop music, movie stars animation and comics including mobile content like cell phones and iPods, video or computer games, as well as the latest fashion, food, home appliances and cosmetics, assertively expanding to things like dance, sculpture, painting, cuisine, plastic surgery, tourism and language (http://jakartapost.com/). In this study I'm just going to focus on the Korean Wave effect in Filipino Youth's preference in music, television dramas and in their taste of fashion. The youths are the one who are most influenced by the Korean Wave and one of those are the Filipino Youth. The new generation today is different and they are easily captured to the things around them. These youths are exposed to the different kinds and genres of music, television dramas and also in their taste of fashion. Now and then, the taste of music, movies...
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