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    Popular Culture 20132014

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    Popular Culture 2013
    1 INTRODUCTION
    1.1 CULTURE
    The term culture is difficult to describe, as it is term used quit broad. Its about the processes of
    meaning production and circulation. So the term is used in trying to make sense of reality, so culture
    describes the ways of life.
    1.2 POPULAR CULTURE
    Popular culture is often media culture. It also exist out of different elements:
    It is liked by many
    It is considered as low culture
    Industrially produced
    It is the culture of common people
    Folk culture: from the past
    1.3 ON THE NOTION OF QUALITY?
    Quality is hard to define. Tastes differ (it is influenced by gender, age, sexuality, ethnicity, etc.) But
    also Social Pressure has on the quality of certain products of popular Culture (watching a soap that is
    considered junk by friends, so you dont tell that you see it, or claim to be an ironic viewer).
    1.3.1 QUALITY: HIERARCHIES


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    What s good?
    There are no fixed criteria;
    It is not the same for everyone: taste;
    It is not completely individual: social;
    It is not natural: learned;
    It is not the same everywhere: culturally specific;
    It is not the same all the time: historically specific.
    The distinction between high and low culture is blurred:
    Popular culture in high culture
    High culture in popular culture
    High culture is not exclusively high class
    Less stigma around popular culture
    But:
    One way process?
    Daily uses of hierarchy
    Take popular culture seriously
    Avoid easy dismissal
    Formulate specific & appropriate criteria
    Make distinctions within popular culture
    Audiences make distinctions
    Do research on Production, text and reception of a populare culture product.
    Producer
    Professional quality
    Fulfilling makers intentions
    Text
    Genre
    Form
    Content
    Moral
    Viewer
    Ratings: important, but avoid populism
    Appreciation: qualitative research
    Problem: no absolute criteria, so relativism?
    Academic writing: fear of quality judgement
    Discuss and argue, make criteria explicit
    Reflect on position and power

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