PDF-(BOOS)-Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today\'s Popular Culture is Actually Making

Forget everything youve ever read about the age of dumbeddown instantgratification culture In this provocative unfailingly intelligent thoroughly researched and surprisingly convincing big idea book Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience economics and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every dayfrom Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsonshas been growing more sophisticated with each passing year and far from rotting our brains is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper After reading Everything Bad is Good for You you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again With a new afterword by the author Steven Johnsons newest book How We Got to Now is now available from Riverhead Books. Introduction to Women. ’. s Studies. Robert Wonser. Gender and the Media. According to the . reflection hypothesis . the media only give the public what it expects, wants, or demands. . In other words, the media content mirrors the behaviors and relationships, and values and norms most prevalent in society.. C4K4. Objectives. 1) Threat to Folk Culture.. 2) Environmental Impact of Popular Culture. How . MDC’s. threaten LCD’s Culture. Rise in incomes = rise in demand of. Western products. . Loss of Traditional Values: may turn away from traditional material culture of food, clothing, and shelter. Why?. . . Culture:. .  . What people care about …. .  . What people take care of…. 2. Folk & Popular Culture: Terms. HABIT. “a repetitive act that a particular . individual. . performs”. Four Approaches. Pre-popular culture. “The highly instructed few, and not the scantily clad many, will ever be the organ to the human race of knowledge and truth. Knowledge and truth . . . are not attainable by the great mass of the human race at all. Typically begins with an idea/good and contagious diffusion.. Companies can create/manufacture popular culture. (ie. MTV). Individuals can create/manufacture popular culture. (ie. Tony Hawk)-video games involving extreme sports popularized skateboarding and other sports.. Fall 2013. PH 321. Dr. David Lavery. Survey of Popular Culture. Survey of Popular Culture. Survey of Popular Culture. Boorstin’s Epigraphs. Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.—Max Frisch. Fall 2013. PH 321. Dr. David Lavery. Survey of Popular Culture. Daniel Chandler’s Semiotics for Beginners. Watch short videos on semiotics from YouTube.. Survey of Popular Culture. Semiotics. Daniel Chandler’s Definition: . Objectives. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Electronic Diffusion of Popular . Culture. Underlining thread to popular culture is CONSUMPTION.. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Culture Diffused?. Chapter 4 Section 3 Text pages 109-117. How are hearths of . popular . culture traits established?. Typically begins with an idea/good and contagious diffusion which move to hierarchical diffusion.. Origin of Culture. Folk Culture. Isolated, clustered. Topics involve every day life, environment, beliefs. Passed down orally. Traditions . Spread by relocation diffusion. Little change over time. Separate, multiple hearths. AS Sociology G671. Recap from Taster. .. What is Sociology. The study of human beings in social groups. *. Understanding the problems that face individuals by exploring the ways in which the structure of society – and its . The cat eye. Popular culture is defined as cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to or aimed at the tastes of general masses of people, much easier said: something aimed to please the basic human of our society.. C4K4. Objectives. 1) Threat to Folk Culture.. 2) Environmental Impact of Popular Culture. How . MDC’s. threaten LCD’s Culture. Rise in incomes = rise in demand of. Western products. . Loss of Traditional Values: may turn away from traditional material culture of food, clothing, and shelter. Why?. . Read pg. 108 in book. Culture and Customs. People living in other locations often have extremely different social customs. . Geographers ask why such differences exist and how social customs are related to the cultural landscape..