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Participatory Culture
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* low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
* creating and sharing ones creation
* contributions matter feel some degree of social connection
Henry Jenkins: director
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Illiteracy
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inability to read or write
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Aliteracy
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one has the ability to read or write but chooses not to
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Functional Aliteracy
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minimal reading and writing skills- inadequate to manage daily living/ employment
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What was Robert Putnam concerned about?
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Our growing social-capital deficit threatens educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection, democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health and happiness.
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What are the 4 big factors that led to big changed in TV news at the network level?
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* mew ownership leads to culture clash
* Deregulation diminishes public interest standard
* Success of 60 minutes
~No longer depended on entertainment TV
~Most profitable continuously running program TV since 1970
* Networks are competing-drives down entertainment mone…
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Deregulation of media
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* less government more competition
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Where did printing first develop?
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* China
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What are e-books?
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an electronic version of a printed book that can be read on a computer or handheld device designed specifically for this purpose.
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Harry Potter book series
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most challenged book of 21st century
wizardry and magic
anti family themes
credited to countering aliteracy
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Challenge to a book
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* Attempt to remove or restrict access to a book, objections of person or group
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Ban to a book
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* Removal of book from access
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What are the origins of motion pictures?
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* Edison established motion picture patents company
* Resulted in flight among producers to West Coast
* Ruled illegal in 1917 as restraint of trade
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What did Eadweard Muybridge contribute?
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* Blends field biology and movie camera
* Multiple cameras to study locomotion
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Great Train Robbery
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First popular western
12 minutes long
Creative editing
Beg., Mid., End
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Nickelodeons
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First movie houses
Nickel per movie
Factory studios resulted
Average attendance: once a week
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The Paramount decision did what?
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Broke up vertical integration
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What was the film industry's response to television?
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Spectaculars
Color, wide screen
Technological gimmicks
Social realism
Audience
segmentation
Drive-ins
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What are modern day film industry strategies?
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*Internet used for moving marketing
*films have Facebook pages
*Twitter feeds
*YouTube channels to promote films in advance of release
*Fans are encouraged to vote for wider distribution
*there’s a pushing of trailers which ‘go viral’.
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Origins of recorded music
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Thomas Edison
*Phonograph
*Telephone + Telegraph
*Telephone repeater
*Cylinder "records"
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Significance of Rock 'N' Roll
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*Economically-motivated migration from South to North
*Rise of youth-oriented culture
*Breakdown of racial segregation:
* Cultural
* Legal
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Elizabeth Einstein
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* American historian of the French Revolution
* Known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in media (manuscript-print culture)
*the role of the printing press in effecting broad cultural change in Western civilization
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Paperbacks
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Inexpensive books bound in paper in such forms as pamphlets, yellowbacks, dime novels, and airport novels.
Most modern paperbacks are either "mass-market paperbacks"
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Dime Novels
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describe any quickly written, describe a sensationalized yet superficial piece of written work. (comic book)
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Pulp Fiction
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were printed on cheap "pulp" paper and published fantastic, escapist fiction for the general entertainment of the mass audiences.
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Trade Books
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a book published by a commercial publisher and intended for general readership.
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Mass market paperbacks
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have cheaper or few illustrations, smaller print and smaller page dimension
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Textbooks
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a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
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Religious Books
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Religious texts, also known as scripture, scriptures, holy writ, or holy books, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition. .
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Reference book
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a book intended to be consulted for information on specific matters rather than read from beginning to end
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University Press book
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*publishing house associated with a university and nearly always bearing the university's name in its imprint.
*The university press is normally a specialized publishing house emphasizing scholarly books, monographs, and periodicals that aid in the dissemination of knowledge to scholars…
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Synergy
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Promotion/sale of different version of a media product across the various subsidiaries of a media conglomerate
diversification vs domination
global expansion of the media market
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What group paved the way for the British Invasion?
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The Beatles
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JTC 100: EXAM 2