a period of time that can be spent relaxing, engaging in recreation, or otherwise indulging in freely chosen activities
What is Leisure
100
the process by which a single corporation acquires ownership of a variety of otherwise unrelated businesses
What is conglomeration
100
usually contrasted with the high culture of elite groups; forms of cultural expression usually associated with the masses, consumer goods, and commercial products
What is Popular Culture?
100
approaches to understanding media effects that focus on individuals’ psychological or social needs that consumption of various media fulfills
What is uses and gratification paradigm?
100
an individual who serves as an example for others to strive toward and emulate
What is a role model?
200
any satisfying, amusing, and stimulating activity that is experienced as refreshing and renewing for body, mind, and spirit
What is Recreation
200
the media is considered like a fourth branch of government (after the executive, legislative, and judiciary) and thus serves as another of the checks and balances on power
What is the Fourth Estate?
200
those forms of cultural expression usually associated with the elite or dominant classes
What is High Culture?
200
theory that suggests that audiences seek messages in the media that reinforce their existing attitudes and beliefs and are thus not influenced by challenging or contradictory information
What is the reinforcement theory?
200
a political and moral philosophy focused on strengthening civil society and communal bonds
What is communitarianism?
300
the process by which it becomes possible to buy and sell a particular good or service
What is commodification
300
a situation in which there is only one individual or organization, without competitors, providing a particular good or service
What is a monopoly?
300
areas of culture that share similar aesthetics and standards of taste
What are Taste Cultures?
300
a term used to characterize audience members as active participants in “reading” or constructing the meaning of the media they consume
What is an active audience?
300
groups of people drawn together by shared interests, especially those relating to hobbies, sports, and media
What are lifestyle enclaves?
400
Today, many of our forms of leisure and recreation are mediated by commodities, goods, and services that we seem to “require” in order to have fun.
What is commercialized leisure
400
reduction or removal of government controls from an industry to allow for a free and efficient marketplace
What is deregulation?
400
having many possible meanings or interpretations
What is polysemy?
400
the ideas and frameworks that audience members bring to bear on a particular media text to understand its meaning
What is an interpretive strategy?
400
any informal public place where people come together regularly for conversation and camaraderie when not at work or at home
What is the third place?
500
the utilization of goods and services, either for personal use or in manufacturing
What is consumption
500
a mutually beneficial interaction between parts of an organization that allows it to create something greater than the sum of its individual outputs
What is synergy?
500
groups of people who share similar artistic, literary, media, recreational, and intellectual interests
What are taste publics?
500
a theory on media that combines models that privilege the media producer and models that view the audience as the primary source of meaning; this theory recognizes that media texts are created to deliver specific messages and that individuals actively interpret them
What is the encoding/decoding model
500
the customs, practices, and values expressed in a particular place by the people who interact there