Cultural Convergence
The process by which previously distinct technologies come to share content, tasks, and resources.
What is convergence?
We can sort the material artifacts of culture into three general attribute areas
What are high, pop, and folk culture?
He was recently appointed as the new Pope following the death of Pope Francis.
Who is Pope Leo (Robert Prevost)?
What is a traditional cheese pizza called in most countries of the world, including Italy, Zimbabwe, and Brazil? Hint: it is named after a popular queen.
What is Margarita pizza?
She was an American woman (August 1, 1920 - October 4, 1951) whose cervical cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, research on which contributed to numerous important scientific advances.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
The two types of convergence.
What is cultural and global convergence?
This culture has huge appeal and functions to bind together large masses of people into a unified cultural identity.
What is pop culture?
This groundbreaking medical treatment was approved in the U.S. in 2024 for genetic disorders.
What is CRISPR gene editing?
This Afro-Asiatic language, arguably the oldest written language on Earth, is a distant relative to the Arabic that replaced it in its home along the Nile.
What is Egyptian?
He was an American civil rights activist (March 17, 1912 - August 24, 1987) who was an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr., and the main organizer of the March on Washington in 1963.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
The way that consumers can annotate, comment on, remix, and otherwise talk back to culture in unprecedented ways
This culture often belongs to social or economic elites and does not usually cross over into the realm of the masses. In the US, examples of this culture could be opera, an appreciation of fine wine, horse polo matches, or other items associated with “sophisticated” tastes.
What is high culture?
This social media platform became the first to introduce an AI-powered news curation system in 2024.
What is Twitter?
Popular singer Rihanna is from this country
What is Barbados?
He (August 29, 1940 – August 4, 2014) served as the White House Press Secretary when he was shot during an assassination attempt on Fmr. President Ronald Reagan. After that, he would become a gun violence prevention advocate, and a GVP organization would be named after him.
Who is James Brady?
The way that developing countries are “attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating center of the system.
Quilt-making, powwows, cakewalks, hula, Shaker furniture, corn dogs, and Creole cuisine are examples of this kind of culture.
What is folk culture?
This spacecraft successfully completed the first mission to explore the outer atmosphere of the sun in 2024
What is Parker Solar Probe?
He was the Olympic sprinter who famously competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, breaking records and defying Hitler's notion of Aryan supremacy.
Who is Jesse Owens?
She advocated for queer rights dating back to the late 50s, a good 10 years before Stonewall. She founded New York’s first lesbian collective in 1958 – The Daughters of Bilitis! In 1972, she was a major force in getting the American Psychiatric Association to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental illness.
Who is Barbara Gittings?
When culture becomes a commercial commodity, this fear arises.
What is the fear of homogenization?
Examples of this include fast-food restaurants developing different menu items for various parts of the world. Or the spread of musical forms such as “Dancehall,” which came from Jamaica has now clearly influenced some of the music from Drake or Rihanna and Brazilian artist Lai Di Dai.
What is cultural diffusion?
He became the first openly LGBTQ+ head of state.
Who is Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of Ireland?
These films have won all "Big Five" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay). *Name one
What are It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)?
This couple was arrested for violating Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act. After 9 years of exile and court hearings, a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court handed down on June 12, 1967, laws banning interracial marriage were deemed unconstitutional, overturning them in 16 states. This moment marked the legacy of a love that triumphed even in the face of persistent hate.
Who are Mildred and Richard Loving?